Friday, March 30, 2007
By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer Staff Writer
Authorities in Catawba County have issued a warrant charging a man with firing bullets into a family's new home in an incident that investigators said was racially motivated.
Kevin Jamal Haqq, 28, of Newton faces two felony charges for pointing a deadly weapon with prejudice and two misdemeanor charges for intimidation, said Maj. Coy Reid of the Catawba County Sheriff's Office. Authorities were looking for Haqq on Thursday.
About 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, 37-year-old Maria Olmos and her husband were moving into their new mobile home on Stove Drive in Newton when they were approached by a group of men, Reid said. Olmos told deputies that one man began yelling racial slurs and said her family wouldn't be moving in, Reid said. The men are black, and the Olmoses are Hispanic, Reid said.
Olmos, her husband and another family member were in their truck when the man slammed a gun into the hood of the vehicle and pointed it at the family, Reid said.
The family left in the truck, and Olmos told authorities that she heard numerous shots fired as they drove away, Reid said. No one was injured, but authorities found nine bullet holes in the Olmoses' trailer.
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