White Lake police were called to the 100 block of Grays Lane around midnight Friday April 15.
According to Detective Mike Salmon, White Lake Police arrived and found Joshua Alan Walters, 25, of White Lake with a gunshot to his lower left leg. Joshua Alan Walters said his father, Ted Alan Walters, entered the home in which he was living accusing him of stealing from him, and shot him in the leg.
Ted Alan Walters, 49, of Elizabethtown, turned himself in to authorities around 4 a.m. Saturday morning.
Salmon said that Ted Walters told officers his son has a major drug problem; that he had stolen several thousand dollars of his property in the past three months; and that his son had stolen his grandmothers’ food out of her freezer on Friday and that pushed him over the edge.
Ted Walters said “I did not want to kill my son; I just want him to have a reminder each time he takes a step, while he is stealing someone else’s belongings.”
Ted Alan Walters is being held under a $50,000 in the Bladen County Jail charged with the following crimes: first degree burglary, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.
Salmon said, “The White Lake Police want our citizens to know with the increase in our population and the abuse of alcohol and drugs by some, we will continue to provide the utmost service to our citizens that our resources allow.”
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