As 25-year-old Darren Powell faces new charges for a deadly high-speed crash in Spring Lake during the weekend, neighbors are speaking out about how they don’t believe he should’ve been let out on bond while he awaits trial in a murder case.
Powell is facing one first-degree murder charge and two attempted murder charges for a shooting last July that left one woman dead.
Court documents show that investigators believe both Powell and a man named Hakeem Wilson shot at a home on Mammoth Drive in Fayetteville while two men were inside. A neighbor named Barbara Adair driving a vehicle in the area was shot and killed …