The Daily Southerner, Tarboro, NC

Local News

August 2, 2012

Funeral services planned Saturday for murder victim

Editor and Publisher John H. Walker

TARBORO — Funeral services for Catherine Piver McCutcheon will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at First Pentecostal Holiness Church in Tarboro.

McCutcheon, sister of Dawn Piver Woody and daughter of Bill Piver of Tarboro, was shot and killed by her estranged husband about 9:45 last Friday morning in the Hertford County community of Winton.

According to reports from the Hertford County Sheriff’s Office, 911 dispatchers received a call at 9:42 a.m. Friday when a Department of Transportation worker reported hearing gunshots.

When deputies arrived they found three gunshot victims — two adults and a child. They were identified as James McCutcheon Jr., 56, Catherine McCutcheon, 40, and their 5-year-old daughter, Emily Grace McCutcheon. The daughter was the only survivor and is currently recovering from her wound.

Investigators say James McCutcheon shot his wife first, then his daughter, then turned the gun on himself.

Catherine McCutcheon was in the process of moving out of the mobile home she and her daughter shared. Deputies say McCutcheon's uncle was helping her with the move Friday morning and a U-Haul trailer was attached to McCutcheon's minivan in the driveway.

Deputies say that James McCutcheon, who lived in a separate mobile home on the same piece of property. Came over to talk. He then returned to his house and returned with a .38 caliber pistol.

Catherine's uncle told authorities he heard three distinct gunshots coming from a different room in the house. Hertford County Sheriff Juan Vaughan said McCutcheon shot his wife in the chest, his daughter in the side and then shot himself in the head.

The sheriff said the couple had no previous history of domestic violence and that Friday's incident was the first time deputies had been called to that location. The sheriff said James McCutcheon had a prior arrest in connection to a child support issue involving a different child in a different state.

Catherine McCutcheon was the former director of nursing at Roanoke-Chowan Community College (RCCC) and had only resigned that position two days before she was killed.

RCCC is planning to hold a memorial service for McCutcheon when students return to campus later this month.

President Dr. Ralph Soney said he also would like to have a college scholarship established in the name of McCutcheon’s daughter.

Complete funeral details may be found on Page 2. A vigil is being planned for next week, according to friends of Catherine McCutcheon.



 

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