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Knock on door leads to shooting death
11-1-03
By Amy Wolfford Staff Writer
News & Record
GREENSBORO -- Thomas Earl Alston told police he was watching television
with his girlfriend Thursday night when there was a knock on the door.
The man at the door -- 28-year-old Chester Kendale Lane -- asked Alston,
32, for a ride, then pulled a handgun, Alston told Greensboro police.
The pair, who apparently didn't know each other, wound up exchanging
gunfire about 9:15 p.m. outside Alston's apartment at 1008-E Rucker St.,
Greensboro police Sgt. Jane Allen said.
Neighbors in Brevard Park heard eight to 10 gunshots. Lane dropped to
the sidewalk, with two gunshot wounds, one to the chest and another in
the right thigh, said Dr. Thomas Owens of the state medical examiner's
office. Lane, who has Randolph County ties but whose address is unknown,
died minutes later at Moses Cone Hospital.
The investigation continues and no charges have been filed while police
investigate Alston's claims of self-defense. Allen said once the
investigation is completed -- she's not sure how long that will take --
the case will be presented to the district attorney, who will decide if
charges should be filed.
Alston could not be located Friday for comment.
Police are checking to see if Lane was involved in a breaking and
entering of a nearby house minutes before the fatal shooting. Officers
had been called to the Brevard Park neighborhood and heard gunfire when
they were taking a report of a man who broke into a house at 3939-A
McIntosh St. and shot at two female residents as they ran off to call
police.
The women, whose names have not been released by police, were uninjured.
A woman at the house Friday said the victims did not want to comment.
Lane is listed on the state's sex offender registry -- with his address
listed as unknown -- for being convicted of taking indecent liberties
with a 13-year-old girl in Randolph County in 1994. He served 2.5 years
in prison for that charge.
N.C. Department of Correction records also show Lane was convicted of
possession of cocaine in 1991 and 2001, larceny in 1998, disorderly
conduct in 1999, driving while intoxicated in 1992 and 1998, and
receiving stolen goods in 1993. He was listed as an absconder from
justice because he had not been reporting to his parole officer, as
ordered, on his latest drug charge.
Relatives could not be located Friday for comment.
The case is the city's 29th homicide of the year. Thirty-one were
http://www.news-record.com/news/local/gso/homicide_110103.htm
Knock on door leads to shooting death
11-1-03
By Amy Wolfford Staff Writer
News & Record
GREENSBORO -- Thomas Earl Alston told police he was watching television
with his girlfriend Thursday night when there was a knock on the door.
The man at the door -- 28-year-old Chester Kendale Lane -- asked Alston,
32, for a ride, then pulled a handgun, Alston told Greensboro police.
The pair, who apparently didn't know each other, wound up exchanging
gunfire about 9:15 p.m. outside Alston's apartment at 1008-E Rucker St.,
Greensboro police Sgt. Jane Allen said.
Neighbors in Brevard Park heard eight to 10 gunshots. Lane dropped to
the sidewalk, with two gunshot wounds, one to the chest and another in
the right thigh, said Dr. Thomas Owens of the state medical examiner's
office. Lane, who has Randolph County ties but whose address is unknown,
died minutes later at Moses Cone Hospital.
The investigation continues and no charges have been filed while police
investigate Alston's claims of self-defense. Allen said once the
investigation is completed -- she's not sure how long that will take --
the case will be presented to the district attorney, who will decide if
charges should be filed.
Alston could not be located Friday for comment.
Police are checking to see if Lane was involved in a breaking and
entering of a nearby house minutes before the fatal shooting. Officers
had been called to the Brevard Park neighborhood and heard gunfire when
they were taking a report of a man who broke into a house at 3939-A
McIntosh St. and shot at two female residents as they ran off to call
police.
The women, whose names have not been released by police, were uninjured.
A woman at the house Friday said the victims did not want to comment.
Lane is listed on the state's sex offender registry -- with his address
listed as unknown -- for being convicted of taking indecent liberties
with a 13-year-old girl in Randolph County in 1994. He served 2.5 years
in prison for that charge.
N.C. Department of Correction records also show Lane was convicted of
possession of cocaine in 1991 and 2001, larceny in 1998, disorderly
conduct in 1999, driving while intoxicated in 1992 and 1998, and
receiving stolen goods in 1993. He was listed as an absconder from
justice because he had not been reporting to his parole officer, as
ordered, on his latest drug charge.
Relatives could not be located Friday for comment.
The case is the city's 29th homicide of the year. Thirty-one were