Dead Shooting Victim Identified as Nathan Rupert Plant in Salisbury, N.C. Triple Shooting on Rachel Lane

RFP Staff

♦ Deceased shooting victim was identified as Nathan Rupert Plant, 37, of Lexington, N.C. Yesterday a triple shooting occurred at 1011 Rachel Lane in Salisbury Wednesday Afternoon led to one dead and two wounded.

A neighbor, hearing gunshots, called 911 and summoned Salisbury Police to a one-level white mobile home on the corner of Rachel Lane off Gaskey Road near Airport Road. The first officers on the scene found two persons shot. One of the victims Nathan Rupert Pant, 37, was pronounced dead at the scene. A surviving gunshot victim, Tonya Veann Wilks, 44, of 1011 Rachel Lane was transported to Novant Rowan Regional Medical Center where she was said to be in stable condition and has since been released.

Later Wednesday afternoon a third individual Desmine Marnic Kirkland, 28, of the 500 block Neelytown Road in China Grove who suffered a gunshot wound, arrived at Novant Rowan Regional Medical Center. It was determined Kirkland was at the Rachel Lane shooting. His wound is reported as being non-life threatening.

All afternoon police vehicles were parked along Rachel Street as investigators spoke with neighbors and gathered crime scene evidence.

All three persons are said to know each other, yet their exact relationships are yet unclear to investigators.

Desmine Marnic Kirkland, 28, is no stranger to death scenes. Kirkland was previous convicted of 2nd degree murder as an accessory after the fact in the 2010 for 2009 slaying of Demetrius Bost. After Bost was murdered his body was coldly flung into a ditch on Milford Hills Drive.

Desmine Marnic Kirkland’s Previous Record:

http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0996675&searchLastName=kirkland&searchFirstName=desmine&searchMiddleName=m&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

Police have not yet named the killer or the motive of the Wednesday’s shootout. No charges are yet filed. The crime scene is still under investigation.

Persons with information about the shooting are requested to call the Salisbury Police at 704-638-5333 or Rowan-Salisbury Crime Stoppers 1-866-639-5245.

The Late Nathan Rupert Pant:

1011 Rachel Lane, Salisbury, N.C.:

Tonya Veann Wilks:

**This article will be updated as new information arrives.**

Nathan Marnic Kirkland: