GILMER MAN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER

(06/19/2013)
A Gilmer County man has been arrested for attempted murder, related to an attack on a couple.

Michael Matthew Pumphrey, 34, is in Central Regional Jail, with bail set at $250,000.

A complaint says that Pumphrey, Derrick Lee Stalnaker, Dustin Moore, and others attempted to strike Ricky Townsend and Lindsey Ables in the head with a lead pipe and kill them.

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