The Thirsty Killer

Kings Mountain, North Carolina, is a small town in the hills of the south-western corner of the state, in the western panhandle, about forty minutes from Charlotte and fifteen minutes from Gastonia. It borders Cleveland and Gaston counties and had a population of 10,775. The original settlement was called White Plains; it was incorporated in 1874 and renamed Kings Mountain after the nearby site of the 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain in York County, South Carolina, a turning point in the Revolutionary War. Its two mottos are 'the historical city' and 'the city of progress'. Median household income was $42,336 against a national figure of about $69,000, and the median home cost was $202,100, below the national average.

The story turns on a one-lane dirt road on the edge of town called Man Court, about two hundred yards long, which the county does not maintain and the residents pay to keep up. In the autumn of 2014 Jeffrey Wayne Oakes and his wife Mila moved in. Oakes was born in 1963 in Cleveland County, drove trucks and also worked part time at an auto shop. Mila was born in 1983 in Gaston County, twenty years younger than her husband, and ran a small business called Oakes Southern Charm. They had two sons, Jeffrey Jr., born about 2005, and Aiden, a couple of years younger, and the family attended Westwood Heights Baptist Church.

Almost at once the new arrivals fell out with the neighbours: ATVs and donuts on the road at all hours, gunfire into the woods at three or four in the morning, and Mila's stereo rattling windows a quarter of a mile away. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

On the morning of Wednesday 27 January 2016 Oakes was driving his twelve-year-old son the hundred and fifty yards to the school bus stop at the end of Man Court. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Both men got out and argued for about five minutes while the boy hid in the back seat. Oakes called Mila rather than the law, and she arrived within two minutes and joined in. this part of the story is covered for now Mila was hit once in the head and died at the scene. Oakes was hit twice in the head; another bullet pierced the car window and nearly struck his son. Jeffrey Jr. ran to his mother, could not work her phone, then ran to the arriving school bus and told the driver his father had been shot.

details of the account remain covered until revealed Deputies arriving at 7.16 a.m. found him walking towards them drinking it. He said Oakes had blocked the road and pointed a gun, and that he had shot in self-defence. Oakes's gun was still under his seat. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed Mila is buried at Sunset Cemetery in Shelby.