Posted February 15, 2018 9:43 am by Comments

By Dan Zimmerman

CATAWBA COUNTY, NC — You’ve read stores like this one before. Three wayward yoots got it in their heads that they were going to break into a home to steal some cash/drugs/guns. But…oops! Much to their surprise, the target of the robbery attempt was armed and knew how to use his gun.

Catawba County deputies said the shooting happened at a home on Fairview Drive just before 6 p.m. but authorities found 17-year-old Shane Cauthen in a vehicle off Startown and Blackburn Ridge roads in Lincoln County around 6:15 p.m. Wednesday.

Investigators said Cauthen had been driven there.

Deputies said Cauthen and Dylan Lee Gates and Cory Aaron Ingram came to a home on Fairview Drive on Wednesday wearing masks, intending to rob someone at the home.

An unidentified 17-year-old was the target of the the attack by these three national merit scholars and a gunfight ensued.

During the confrontation, the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office determined Cauthen and the robbery victim shot at each other. Cauthen was shot four times, according to the Lincoln Herald.

Four bullet wounds is a lot. Too much, in fact, for Cauthen to survive.

Cauthen was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

And with the arrest of his …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation

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