Saturday, Nov. 07, 2009

Suspect in deaths of 4 at NC store in US illegally

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. -- Authorities say the suspect in the killing of four men outside a North Carolina store was in the U.S. illegally and had been deported before.

Federal immigration officials told The Mount Airy News that 26-year-old Marcos Gonzalez was sent out of the county in 2007 after serving a prison sentence for kidnapping.

Gonzalez is charged with four counts of murder in the Nov. 1 shootings in the parking lot of a television store in Mount Airy.

Police Chief Dale Watson says he was disturbed to find out Gonzalez was deported after committing a violet crime.

Investigators haven't determined exactly what caused the shooting, but they don't think the victims were chosen at random.