Arrests made after dispute, shooting at Mooresville school

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MOORESVILLE, N.C. — Police arrested a man and woman Friday who got into a fight with a cleaning crew and led to a shot being fired at a Mooresville school late Wednesday night.

The incident happened at Pine Lake Preparatory School on Yellow Wood Circle just after 10 p.m.

When officers arrived at the school they found members of the school cleaning crew standing outside the high school. They told police that another member of the cleaning crew and that man's girlfriend came onto school property and confronted them while they were working inside the building.

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An argument ensued and the male suspect displayed a handgun and fired one round into the ceiling, according to investigators.

During the incident police said a female victim was tased by the suspects. She was taken to Lake Norman Regional Medical Center with minor injuries.

Both suspects, identified as 33-year-old Robert Anderson and 28-year-old Kimber Suber, fled the scene in a blue Hyundai Santa Fe before police arrived.

Police are actively searching for the Hyundai, which has South Carolina plates LSV-685.

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No other injuries were reported. No students or faculty members were on campus at the time of the incident.

According to the school, "the incident was believed to have arisen from a personal dispute among members of the contracted cleaning crew who are related to each other. Parents were notified before 6 a.m. Thursday about the incident and as a precaution, extra security was present on campus to provide additional reassurances to families, students and staff."

On Thursday morning, the school sent the following message to parents:

At approximately 10:30 p.m. on December 2nd there was an incident at the upper school involving the contracted overnight cleaning crew. One crew member got into a verbal altercation with another over a financial dispute. One tazed another and a gun was drawn and discharged into the ceiling. The police were called and dispatched. The person with a gun and his girlfriend fled the scene and are currently being pursued. At no point were students present and no student was placed in harm's way. There is also nothing that ties the suspect(s) back to the school, outside of the cleaning companies contract, which has been terminated, effective immediately. Out of an abundance of caution the police will provide us with additional coverage this morning.

Anderson was charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting injury, four counts of assault by pointing a gun, possession of a firearm by convicted felon, possession of a weapon on school grounds, and damage to property. He was jailed under a $100,000 bond.

Suber was charged with two counts of assault and jailed under a $2,500 bond.

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