A former MLB draft choose was arrested Wednesday night time for allegedly murdering a locksmith in North Carolina.
Brian Grant, 40, is going through fees of second-degree homicide and is being held on the Brunswick County Detention Heart with out bond, in response to data considered by The Publish.
In line with a launch from the Oak Island Police Division, authorities responded to a report Wednesday night and located a 61-year-old man, recognized as Randy Stewart, lifeless from gunshot wounds.
In line with WRAL Information, police physique digital camera footage confirmed Grant telling the authorities that Stewart put a knife to his throat.
The Blue Jays chosen Grant within the seventh spherical of the 2002 MLB Draft out of Charles B. Aycock Excessive College in Pikeville, North Carolina.
The 6-foot-4, 207-pound right-hander spent 4 seasons within the minors, together with stints with the Medication Hat Blue Jays (2002), Pulaski Blue Jays (2003-04) and Auburn Doubledays (2004-05), however he by no means reached the large leagues.
Throughout that span, he notched a 4.72 ERA in 169.2 innings with 111 strikeouts.
Grant is a resident of Fuquay-Varina, which is about 20 miles south of Raleigh.
The incident allegedly passed off at Grant’s dwelling throughout what appeared to have been a service name to the home by Stewart’s locksmith firm, in response to the Wilmington Star-Information.
The residence was Grant’s second dwelling, a consultant from the district legal professional’s workplace informed the Star-Information.
Grant’s legal professional informed the Star-Information that the previous hurler has no legal file and has younger youngsters and a household, and in addition characterised the case as a transparent occasion of self-defense.
Grant appeared in Brunswick County courtroom on Thursday, and is scheduled to make his subsequent courtroom look on Aug. 11.
