Couple escapes gunfire while throwing away trash into dumpster at mountain resort

A couple from Burke County said they are grateful to be alive after someone shot at them at a mountain resort south of Morganton.

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There were reports of several shots being fired at the Pine Mountain Resort last week, investigators said.

The couple said they went to the resort to help a resort member dump garbage in a dumpster and as they left, someone shot at them.

April Mosteller showed Channel 9 where gunfire shattered the rear window of her boyfriend’s 1963 Ford F-100 pickup truck.

“We were both praying to the good lord that the bullets wouldn’t hit us and that he wouldn’t kill us,” Mosteller said. “We were taking my friend’s trash to the dumpster and the next thing I knew we were getting shot at,” said Wesley Chapman.

There is a sign on the dumpster that reads only Pine Mountain members can throw trash in it.

Those who break the rules can be prosecuted for trespassing, the sign warns.

The couple said they had permission to use the dumpster and hope that wasn’t the reason someone shot at them.

“That’s what is eating at me,” Chapman said. I’m about afraid to leave the house because I don’t know why. Because all I was doing was dumping some friend’s trash and he just opened up.”

The couple wants the person responsible charged and to pay for the damage to their truck.

Channel 9 reached out to the Pine Mountain Owner’s Association about the case, and we have not heard back.

Sheriff deputies said an investigator is assigned to the case but so far, there has not been an arrest.

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