An Ardmore resident who died in last Wednesdayâs standoff with Winston-Salem police staged a similar standoff in 2007 with Davidson County sheriffâs deputies.
Edwin Joseph Castillo Jr., 34, was killed in an exchange of gunfire with officers, police said. An autopsy conducted at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center showed that Castillo died of a gunshot wound.
During the standoff, Castillo also set a fire at the home at 526 Lockland Ave. where he had barricaded himself. The fire caused extensive damage to the house.
When Castillo was 20, he faced charges in connection with an all-night standoff with Davidson County deputies in July 2007.
Their attorneys asked for bond to be set at $200,000 or even lower, saying that they posed no threat to the community and did not pose a flight risk.
Assistant District Attorney Alan Martin recited the graphic details of what Molly Corbett and Martens were accused of doing to Jason Corbett and argued that the nature of the crime, the weight of the evidence and their financial resources called for a bond of $1 million each for the father and daughter.
Jason Corbett, 39, was found beaten to death in the early morning hours of Aug. 2, 2015 in the Davidson County home he shared with his wife, Molly Corbett, and his two children, Jack and Sarah, from his first marriage. Molly Corbett had been hired as an au pair for Jasonâs children while Jason lived in Ireland, and they began dating. They married in 2011 and moved to the Meadowlands, a golf community in Davidson County. Prosecutors said Molly Corbett and Martens beat Jason to death with a baseball bat and a paving brick. They said
Their attorneys asked for bond to be set at $200,000 or even lower, saying that they posed no threat to the community and did not pose a flight risk.
Assistant District Attorney Alan Martin recited the graphic details of what Molly Corbett and Martens were accused of doing to Jason Corbett and argued that the nature of the crime, the weight of the evidence and their financial resources called for a bond of $1 million each for the father and daughter.
Jason Corbett, 39, was found beaten to death in the early morning hours of Aug. 2, 2015 in the Davidson County home he shared with his wife, Molly Corbett, and his two children, Jack and Sarah, from his first marriage. Molly Corbett had been hired as an au pair for Jasonâs children while Jason lived in Ireland, and they began dating. They married in 2011 and moved to the Meadowlands, a golf community in Davidson County. Prosecutors said Molly Corbett and Martens beat Jason to death with a baseball bat and a paving brick. They said
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Molly Corbett and Thomas Martens will make their first appearance on Wednesday in Davidson Superior Court since their murder convictions were overturned.
The father and daughter are currently in the Davidson County Jail with no bond allowed on charges of second-degree murder in the 2015 death of Irish businessman Jason Corbett. The N.C. Supreme Court upheld a decision by a lower appellate court to overturn the murder convictions and send the case back to Davidson County for a possible retrial.
Garry Frank, Davidson Countyâs district attorney, said Monday that a bond hearing will be held at 2 p.m. in Davidson Superior Court. The hearing will determine what amount of bond, if any, should be set for Molly Corbett and Martens.