Driver accused of killing a man on a North Carolina road was impaired, police say
Police charged a 50-year-old man with felony death by vehicle and driving while impaired in a fatal wreck in Gastonia on Wednesday night, court records show.
William Delany McGinnis died in the collision at North Chester Street and Caldwell Street, police said. McGinnis was 44 and lived in Bessemer City, public records show.
Police accused William Richard Moore Jr. of Gastonia of causing the wreck. Moore also was charged with marijuana possession and having no operator’s license, according to court documents. He refused a breath test, an officer said in an arrest warrant in Gaston County District Court.
“The impaired driving offense was the proximate cause of death,” an officer wrote in court documents.
Moore was in the Gaston County jail Thursday without bail, court records showed.