Charge he looked stunned staring down and shaking his head. He was devastated. The attorney told me why a few minutes later, thacker had just learned the victim died. He just found out literally minutes before he walked into the courtroom. We wondered how that could be if he had been served with a murder warrant he should have known tammy was dead. Nobody told him before . No. Authorities told us he had been charged with murder since he was behind bars paperwork would have been served there but did that happen . We asked the jail and we were told they did not see any paperwork in their files and asked the Clerks Office and they had no paperwork, either so we asked the District Attorneys Office and they discovered that no murder warrant had ever been issued. Thacker went before a judge on a murdr charge before he had been charged with murder. The wrong paperwork a summons had been issued. Murder case. Error this warrant was drawn up and served and thacker went back to courtment because
Causes of mumps. Officials say the counties are mecklenburg, iredell and cabarrus county. Yesterday we told you about a case in Iredell County and another in mecklenburg. The medical director for the Health Department stopped by wbtv today to address whether officials expect more cases. It hasnt grown. This is the same number weve had since the end of last week. And quite frankly, i would expect it to grow because number one, the incubation period for mumps is somewhere between 1225 days. The doctor says mumps circulates around the world and shows up in the u. S. From time to time and most of you are protected because of the vaccines you received as a child but warns folks with weaker immune systems can easily get the mumps. And what a gorgeous sunny day. You can see the big bright skies. A few puffy clouds from the hd and we think you are going to love chief meterologist, eric weekend. He is live in the first alert weather center. And oddly enough the quiet weather is the story becaus
To an already congested area. We have more with how the neighborhoods could be affected. Reporter park road and wood lawn are known as an area filled with traffic, but what added to that is additional new apartments. Leon and Beth Mrf Murphy have lived in madison park for 48 years and married 54. We first moved here, we were way out of town. Reporter the neighborhood is less than a mile from South Park Mall it used to be a dairy farm that belonged to Billy Grahams father. We had problems with trucks so heavy it broke the water lines to the house. And messed up the phones for a couple of weeks. A new one with 450 apartment and retail and restaurant space to be built near pfeiffer university, just a stone throw away from the neighborhood. I think it will increase the traffic. It bound to. Reporter Mollie Wright lives in madison park and jogs almost of day issue she likes the progress. What was there needed to be replaced issue new apartments be great there. Reporter but worries that peop
Other issue that is were following include 77 northbound near amity hill we had an accident, now in the median. Were on the scene of this accident as well gathering more information northbound at 36 miles per hour, so still a little slow. So 21 heading up through troutman up through statesville should be used. 85 southbound we have the inside left lane blocked with an accident involving a tractor trailer just south of highway 152 from china grove. Very minimal impact expected with this accident at this time. Lots of room still to move around. And then in east shaferlt we have this. This is a roadway thats blocked because of standing water. This happening at hawthorne lane just north of central avenue. In the meantime youll have to avoid this intersection just north of it, use the plaza as john. We have some breaking news right now. All lanes are 77 just opened back up after freezing rain caused several crashes in both yeah. Trapping hundreds of drivers for at least five hours overnight
Especially in the morganton area. I spotted this pickup truck over turned after crossing an icy bridge. Then we got over to Catawba County just south of hickory and saw this call hauler jackknifed in the roadway there. There were other vehicles involved in this icy crash. One man told me he had to jump out of the way to avoid being hit. They came sliding at me. I had to jump over the guardrail. I thought they were going to hit me. But they just barely stopped right before they hit my truck. It was probably like less than five feet. All that ice we saw on the trees and up in the power lines, all that is gone now as the temperature continues to warm this midday, dave faherty, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Dozens of crashes force Highway Patrol to shut down portions of 485 and 77 last night. At 6 00 yesterday we brought you live pictures of the after a multicar crash there. Some drivers say they sat in traffic for up to five hours. Wake up drivers after several crashes on i77 just north of s