MCDOWELL COUNTY, N.C. (FOX Carolina) – The McDowell County Sheriff’s Office said a man was sentenced to nearly 20 years on attempted murder charges.
The sheriff’s office said deputies were called to a home on Jacktown Road on the night of October 3, 2023 in reference to a shooting. Once inside, deputies said they located three women suffering from gunshot wounds.
51-year-old Joseph Andrew Hartwell Jr. was found guilty of three counts of attempted murder, three counts of assault iwth a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, possession of a firearm by a felon and felony breaking and/or entering…