{"id":10143,"date":"2021-06-05T17:37:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T17:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci0284e6e6500027b6"},"modified":"2021-06-05T17:37:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T17:37:04","slug":"triple-homicide-dead-man-found-in-woods-others-in-home-4-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2021\/06\/05\/triple-homicide-dead-man-found-in-woods-others-in-home-4-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"TRIPLE HOMICIDE, DEAD MAN FOUND IN WOODS, OTHERS IN HOME, 4 DEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A triple homicide resulted in a total of 4 men being killed. The 4th death was a suicide by the suspect of the triple homicide.&nbsp;58-year-old Michael Elliott (Not Pictured),&nbsp;Kendrick Knight, 26, and&nbsp;Philip Jewell, 41, were all murdered in a triple homicide. The suspect&nbsp;21-year-old Michael Matocha committed suicide soon after the murders.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/.image\/c_fit,h_600,w_600\/MTgxNTIzNzY2NjkyNTUzODk2\/1untitkled.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, 4 men were killed in Huntersville, NC in the afternoon. The Huntersville Police Department responded to an assist medic call on Caldwell Station Road in Huntersville.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Upon medic arrival to the scene, it was determined the occupant of the home was deceased. The victim was identified as Michael Elliott. Due to circumstances surrounding the death, a homicide investigation commenced, which carried into Wednesday, June 2, 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the course of the investigation detectives located a second homicide victim, identified as Kendrick Knight in a nearby wooded area.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the investigation continued into June 3, 2021, detectives located a third homicide victim, identified as Philip Jewell, in his home, which is within the same community as the first two homicide victims.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Inside the home of Mr. Jewell, detectives also located the suspect, identified as 21-year-old Michael Matocha, deceased from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p>There is still no motive as to what happened, and why the men were killed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 men were killed by an alleged suspect. The suspect then killed himself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[688,703,179,57,583,581,182,180],"class_list":["post-10143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-3-dead","tag-4-dead","tag-dead-in-woods","tag-murder","tag-triple-homicide","tag-triple-murder","tag-wooded-area","tag-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}