An elderly Tri-Cities region couple were shot while sleeping in their bed, and now three man face charges for the crime in Johnson County.
It happened last February on Sugar Creek Rd. in the Laurel Bloomery community. Investigators said someone fired 22 gunshots into a home. Ten bullets hit 66-year-old Arvil Clark and his 67-year-old wife Margaret.
Sheriff Mike Reece said a grand jury returned indictments for three men; Chad Collins, James Ray Hugus, and Robert Miller. All three are charged with aggravated attempted first-degree murder among other charges.
These men are already in jail in Ashe County, N.C for other drug-related crimes.
Sheriff Reece said the shooting wasn't the first time these three men visited the Clark home. He says back in March of 2010 the men pretended to be police officers gained entry to the Clark home and then robbed them.
Reece said they were looking for money and drugs. They came back a second time and Clark shot one of the men. Reece said that made the robbers angry and they came back again to get revenge on him.
“They shot into the bedroom where this couple was sleeping, the mattress was shot full of holes...they intended to kill both of them,” said Reece.
Reece said the three men have an extensive criminal history. In fact, Hugus was once dubbed the "bicycle bandit" for robbing several banks in Florida, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska and then ridding off on a bicycle.
Also of note, Reece said that clark's son-in-law was one of the three people murdered by Frederick Hammer at a tree farm in Grayson County, Va.
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