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CALDWELL COUNTY, N.C. — A Caldwell County man has been indicted and charged with involuntary manslaughter after the sheriff’s office said he accidentally shot and killed a man.
Matthew Steven Phillips, 29, of Lenoir, was cleaning his gun when he accidentally shot 26-year-old Jaron Odell Soots on Sept. 10, 2016.
Soots was rushed to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Phillips turned himself in to the Caldwell County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday and was placed under a $10,000 secured bond.
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