Ricky Marlow Woodell Jr. died Monday from injuries sustained on Saturday night when a car load of poachers ran him down while he stood in his front yard in Gaston County. Ricky hearing multiple gun shots near his home went out in his yard to investigate when a car full of low life poachers lost control running through his yard striking him.

“This was awful,” said Brodhage. [NC Highway Patrol] “It happened right there in the man’s front yard. What are you going to do?”
Woodell’s two daughters and a son, the oldest just 13, watched as emergency workers cared for him as his life began slipping away. Woodell remained on life support until his death, Brodhage said.
Another Gaston County man, William Adam Payseur, 39, of 3106 Wesleyan Church Road, faces charges of felony hit and run and driving while impaired. He remained in Gaston County Jail late Monday under a $100,000 bond.

What a horrible senseless crime and how terrible that a family has to go through this hell.

All four left the scene, but one of the men returned and told troopers what had taken place, Brodhage said.
Officers would find the other three at a house less than two miles away. Two of them had fallen asleep. Payseur was awake and taken into custody without incident, Brodhage said.
At 1:28 a.m. Sunday, troopers requested Payseur submit to a chemical analysis of his blood, Trooper K.L. Cornwell wrote in a warrant affidavit.
Payseur had red, watery, bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, Cornwell wrote. Troopers did not use a Breathalyzer test on Payseur.
“There might be other impairing substances that a breath test wouldn’t detect,” Brodhage said. When troopers might have the result of Payseur’s blood test was not immediately known.

Gaston Gazette

Poaching deer, discharging firearms, drunk driving, and using other substances is activities that a civilized society cannot tolerate but the senseless killing of another person is beyond the pale. Today the District Attorney added a 2nd degree murder charge which certainly seems warranted.
I hope they throw the book at these guys it won’t bring Mr. Woodell back but maybe it will cause others to stop and think before they do something as stupid as this.

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