CLARKTON — Lawmen are seeking additional information and a suspect in a fatal shooting here Friday evening.
William James Purdie, 37, of Airport Road in Clarkton, is wanted in the double-shooting of Ervin Junior Ripley and Debra Purdie. Ervin Junior Ripley, the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office said in a release, was left dead of a gunshot wound to the head; Debra Purdie was shot in the hand and taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville.
It happened after 8 p.m. in the 5600 block of Mercer-Mill Road in Clarkton.
A release said “the incident appears to be domestic in nature.” Charges filed against William James Purdie are for murder, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, and shooting in an occupied dwelling.
Anyone with information should contact the Sheriff’s Office at 910-862-6960.
This story authored by the Bladen Journal.