Deputies: 2 shot at large gathering in Boone
Several calls were made to 911 shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday night.
BOONE, N.C. (WBTV) - Two people are recovering after a shooting Saturday night at a large gathering in Boone.
According to deputies with the Watauga County Sheriff’s Office, the shooting was called in by several people around 9:11 p.m. at a venue off Will Cook Road. Callers also said the shooter left in a pickup truck.
Deputies were able to get his name and phone number and called him, talking for about three hours before he agreed to surrender.
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Stephen Ped Nobles, 27, was then arrested without incident and charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.
The two people Nobles is accused of shooting were treated at an area hospital and have since been released.
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