N.C. Father Jailed for Murdering Man He believed Molested his Son
by ALEX REED / NewsChannel 36 CONCORD, N.C. -- A father is behind bars, accused of shooting a man to death. Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Deputies say the case could be related to the alleged sexual assault of his child. Sheriff’s Deputies say 46 year old William Ballance once lived with a family just outside of Concord. He moved out once the father in that home accused Ballance of sexually abusing his child. For the sake of that child we’re not reporting the family’s name, address, or picture. Deputies gathered enough to take out a warrant against Ballance on December 31 for those sexual abuse charges, but on January first, deputies found Ballance dead at his mobile home from apparent gun-shot wounds. “I heard three dense fires,” explains one neighbor who did not want to be identified. He says the noises that came from Ballance's home early New Year's morning sounded, “more like a weapon than it did anything else. It was two shots then another one.” Deputies arrested the father of...