The elder Campbell ran into the woods and was arrested shortly afterward, police said. One officer returned fire and wounded Campbell in the leg, the statement said. The truck stopped as well and its driver, Edward Campbell, opened fire on the officers with a pistol, striking both, police said. West Virginia State Police said in a statement that two Lewisburg police officers noticed the SUV with stolen North Carolina plates and pulled it over on Interstate 64. The pair set the house on fire, killed the couple and loaded the bodies into the Faulkner's red pickup before driving off in both vehicles to West Virginia, Wilkins said. Wilkins said the Campbells were driving a stolen SUV and allegedly broke into the home of Jerome Faulkner, 73, and his wife, Dora, 62, near Oak Hill, North Carolina, about 7 a.m.
It's unreal," Sheriff Brindell Wilkins of North Carolina's Granville County told Raleigh's WRAL television. The father-son crime wave "is something you see in the movies.
West Virginia State Police identified the suspects as Edward Campbell, 54, and Eric Campbell, 21, of Indian Acres, Texas. Police arrested the men in West Virginia on Thursday after a shootout in which the officers were slightly wounded.
(Reuters) - A Texas father and son on a multi-state crime spree killed a North Carolina couple, set their home on fire, stole their truck and then shot and wounded two police officers in West Virginia, authorities said on Friday.