SURRY COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Officials are providing more details in a situation that left a Mount Airy police K-9 and a homicide suspect dead this week.
According to the Surry County Sheriff’s Office, on Wednesday the Mount Airy Police Department was chasing a suspect wanted for a double homicide out of Cumberland County after a suspicious vehicle complaint, hitting another car head-on on Riverside Drive.
The suspects, Desmund Louis Moore, 42, Love Anna Smith, 45, Robert Matthew Gelsomino, 26, all of Fayetteville, ran away from the crash. Gelsomino was taken into custody and MAPD officers, along with Surry County deputies, continued to chase Moore and Smith into a wooded area off Paisley Drive.
Moore allegedly fired a gun at law enforcement. Mount Airy Police Department K-9 Draco was hit by gunfire, and both a deputy and officer returned fire.
“Moore was later found deceased from a gunshot wound,” the sheriff’s office release says.
Moore was wanted for the killings Taylor Duggins, 32, and Arthur Acosta, 21, in Hope Mills.