Shots fired from car in chase

Incident ends with one driver crashing into telephone pole

Saturday, July 7, 2007

By Marcie Young
Charlotte Observer Staff Writer

Several shots were fired at a Newton man driving along U.S. 70 in Hickory after he began chasing the driver of another car, police said.

On Wednesday night, Kelvin White, 34, of Newton stopped his Pontiac Grand Prix behind a Honda parked at a red light on U.S. 70. When the light turned green, White told police, the Honda didn't move, so he started honking his horn, said Capt. Clyde Deal of the Hickory Police Department.

White told police that the driver of the Honda stepped out of the car holding a metal pipe and began yelling, Deal said. White told police he also climbed out of his car and then saw that the Honda's passenger was brandishing a gun.

Both men got into their vehicles and headed east on U.S. 70, Deal said. White told police that the passenger in the Honda began shooting at White and his passenger, 38-year-old John William Powers of Hickory. One bullet hit the middle of White's windshield, Deal said.

The driver of the Honda sped through a red light, White told police, and he followed, Deal said. White had to swerve to avoid hitting another car entering the intersection of 25th Street Boulevard and slammed into a telephone pole, Deal said. White was not charged.

Police are looking for Honda's driver and passenger, who witnesses said were two males in their early 20s.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Hickory Police Department at 828-328-5551.

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