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Death

CONCORD — Mr. Darrell “Mick” Furr, 43, died June 30, 1990, at Cabarrus Memorial Hospital. Funeral is 2 p.m. Tuesday at Wilkinson Funeral Home. Visitation is 7 to 9 tonight. Survivors are his mother, Mrs. Betty Wilkinson; brother, Jim Wilkinson of Mooresville, Harold Wilkinson; sister, Mrs. Vicky Long.
The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, North Carolina, July 2, 1990

CONCORD — Two Concord teenagers have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Darrell Mitchell Furr, 43, in a shoot-out June 30, authorities said Monday. Jeffrey Wayne Ledbetter, 17, of 3 Green Dr. and Michael Cain Regan, 16, of 4193 Stowe Rd. were being held in Cabarrus jail without bond Monday after their arrest over the weekend, Police Chief Bob Cansler said. According to police, Furr, of 315 Vance St., was shot in the back and forehead apparently moments after he fired four shotgun blasts into a mobile home on Sunderland Road. The mobile home was occupied by three adults at the time, Cansler said. “We don’t know exactly what started it yet,” Cansler said Monday, “but we do know that Furr fired first.” At first, police investigated the shooting as self-defense, Cansler said. But after further interviews and investigation, the district attorney's office ruled that charges should be brought against Ledbeter and Regan, he said. “There was clearly an exchange of gunfire,” Cansler said. Cansler described the shooting as “an ongoing neighborhood dispute of several days.” He said police investigators determined that Ledbetter and Regan knew Furr was coming to the trailer shortly after 11 p.m. June 30. “They saw him (Furr) coming,” went outside and hid, leaving three adults inside, Cansler said. Cansler would not identify the three. After Furr fired four shotgun blasts into the trailer, he was hit by shotgun pellets fired from elsewhere, Cansler said. The pellets hit Furr in the back, in the front of his head and about his chest, arms and face, Cansler said. Furr was found at 11:20 p.m. lying face down in front of a residence at 84 Sunderland Rd., Cansler said. The shoot-out had occurred at 59 Sunderland Rd. Cansler said the shot to the head killed Furr, but he added that investigators are awaiting an autopsy report from the chief medical examiner's office to determine which shot struck him first. Ledbetter and Regan were scheduled to make their first appearances in Cabarrus District Court on Monday, Cansler said. The court session was still in progress late Monday afternoon, and the two had not yet appeared.
The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, North Carolina, July 10, 1990