GASTONIA, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A man was charged with murder Monday after a 70-year-old man was struck and killed by a vehicle earlier in the day, according to the Gastonia Police Department.
The fatal incident occurred around 12:15 p.m. Monday, July 14, at the intersection of Churchill Drive and East Garrison Boulevard, near the Gaston County Public Library and the Schiele Museum of Natural History & Planetarium./
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Authorities confirmed the pedestrian, later identified as 70-year-old James Harris, was dead at the scene.
Police charged 30-year-old Robert Johnson, of Gastonia, in the fatal collision. Officers say he was driving eastbound on Garrison in a 2001 Jeep Cherokee, where Johnson was trying to cross the street and was struck…