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Sheriff: N.C. man who killed parents, two deputies had cache of weapons and may have been plotting public attack


TOM FOREMAN Jr.
Associated Press
A gunman who killed himself, two deputies and his mother and stepfather in a 13-hour standoff in Boone had a large cache of weapons and may have been contemplating a public attack, Sheriff Len Hagaman of Watauga County said Thursday.
George Wyatt Ligon, 58, and his wife, Michelle Ligon, 61, were killed Wednesday, and the shooting suspect, Isaac Alton Barnes, 32, died at the scene, the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.
Barnes was Michelle Ligon’s son and the George’s stepson.
Hagaman said that family members worried about the large number of weapons in Barnes’ possession. ....

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