Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Stallings Business Owner Shot

Homicide investigators are still piecing together the events that led up to a fatal shooting Wednesday morning in Stallings, NC. The shooting happened near an auto shop on the 100 block of Sherin Lane. The murder victim, Chris Brynarski, 32, was a father of five children.

Stallings Police arrested Mark Stephen Thomas, 23, (L) and charged him with murder. Brynarski owned Union County Customs Auto Shop for about four years. Other workers and vendors were in the shop when the shooting happened and gave police some leads. Police found the two suspects around the corner on Highway-49 at the Waffle House. They also found their pickup truck with the suspected murder weapon inside.

This is the first homicide and the first fatal shooting the Stallings Police Department has ever had since it formed in 2003. Source: WCNC