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James Baxter Baucom

Case from Gastonia, NC dated May 19, 2015

Victim Details

James Baxter Baucom

Male

White / Caucasian

Gastonia

NC

2015-05-19

57

James

Baxter Baucom

07/02/2026

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James Baxter Baucom, a 57-year-old white male, died on May 19, 2015, in Gastonia, North Carolina. His death was the result of a tragic double-murder suicide. On that fateful day, Gaston County police were called to a mobile home on Archie Road in Chapel Grove, North Carolina, where they discovered the bodies of James Baxter Baucom and 51-year-old Lisa Cole King. Both had been fatally shot. The shooter, identified as Benjamin Elliot King, 52, of Fort Mill, South Carolina, was Lisa Cole King's est ...
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  • Obituary for James Baxter Baucom | M. L. Ford & Sons Funeral Home, Clover, SC
  • Police: Grandfather kills wife, her boyfriend, in front of grandchildren
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