Gastonia police are investigating a hit and run after a Kings Mountain man was struck by a car and killed while walking along the shoulder of West Franklin Boulevard.
Sgt. J. Ewers said police were called to the scene near the intersection of West Franklin Boulevard and Sante Circle just east of Sadler Elementary School shortly before 6 a.m. Thursday morning.
They discovered the body of 33-year-old James Marshall Nichols. Police said Nichols was walking from Kings Mountain to Gastonia along the side of the eastbound lane of West Franklin Boulevard when he was struck. It s a terrible way to start Christmas Eve, Ewers said.