‘Hunters don’t shoot to wound’: Man stands trial in crossbow shooting

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James Michael Rick listens to opening statements during his trial Tuesday afternoon, April 19, 2022, at the Gaston County Courthouse.

Nobody is denying that James Michael Rick went hunting.

The question of who or what he was hunting, however, is at the heart of a criminal trial that started on Tuesday afternoon.

Rick, who is from North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Delia “Joyce” Aldridge Rick, who he is alleged to have shot with a crossbow before dumping her car, with her body in it, in Lake Wylie.

In Rick’s trial on Tuesday, Assistant District Attorney Deborah Gulledge argued that on the evening of May 4, 2019, Rick thought that his girlfriend, Melinda Kay Robinson of Belmont, had stolen money that he planned to spend on drugs.

Attorney Deborah Gulledge looks back at defendant James Michael Rick during his trial Tuesday afternoon, April 19, 2022, at the Gaston County Courthouse.

“And he got mad. He got really, really angry,” sending texts to someone else saying that he was looking for Robinson, Gulledge said.

Rick went…

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