A man who was supposed to be in court in Cabarrus County didn’t come back after a break, so deputies shot and killed him in Rowan County a few days later.
Kenneth Vickers, who was 36 years old, had been found guilty of doing bad things with children. He was out of jail on bail, but when the court took a break, he didn’t come back.
The sheriff’s deputies from Cabarrus County went to get him at a place in Salisbury called Correll Park. They found him in a shed next to a house.
Vickers shot at the deputies with a gun, so they shot back, and he died. Luckily, none of the deputies were hurt. The ones who shot him were from Rowan County, not Cabarrus County.
Some family members of Vickers’ victims were in the courtroom when they realized he had left. One man, Robert Sells, who used to be Vickers’ father-in-law, wasn’t surprised by what happened. He said Vickers didn’t want to go to jail.
The police are looking into what happened, which is what they do whenever a police officer shoots someone.
In the past month, there have been at least seven times when police officers have shot people in the Charlotte area, and five of those times, the people died.