MORGANTON, N.C. — Burke County officials arrested two men in connection to a shooting death early Thursday morning in Morganton.
William Chase Pate, 29, and Cordero Louis Thompson, 27, were arrested Friday morning at a home in Old Fort.
Pate was charged with murder in the shooting death of Christopher Eron Williams, 35. It happened in the mobile home park off Jamestown Road.
Thompson was charged with accessory after the fact of murder.
With the assistance of the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office, State Bureau of Investigation and the Old Fort and Marion police departments, the two were arrested without incident.
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