Overview
- Deputies say Benjamin Michael Campbell, 37, ripped down a Trump banner on Sept. 6 in Nantahala Gorge before multiple shots were fired at the property.
- Homeowner Mark Thomas says he fired two warning shots from his porch, after which the suspect allegedly circled back and fired from a vehicle sunroof.
- Swain County detectives obtained CCTV footage that Thomas posted to YouTube and used it to identify a suspect vehicle and Campbell.
- Campbell was arrested in Cobb County, Georgia on Sept. 30, extradited to Swain County on Oct. 7, and is being held on a $70,000 bond.
- He faces charges including felony assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill or inflict serious injury, discharging a firearm to incite fear, and willful and wanton injury to personal property, and no injuries were reported in the initial dispatch.