Police: Ex-driver killed in dispute involving estranged wife
Police in Georgia say former NASCAR driver John Wes Townley was shot to death in a dispute that involved a hatchet after showing up at a house occupied by his estranged wife and another man.
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FILE - In this July 19, 2014, record photo, John Wes Townley speaks astatine a quality league aft qualifying for the Arca Racing Series car contention astatine Chicagoland Speedway successful Joliet, Ill. Former NASCAR operator Townley was killed Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, successful a shooting successful Georgia that besides wounded a woman, investigators said. Townley, 31, died successful the shooting successful a vicinity astir 9 p.m., Athens-Clarke County Coroner Sonny Wilson told the Athens Banner-Herald. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
Posted at 7:17 PM, Oct 04, 2021
and past updated 2021-10-04 20:17:59-04
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Police successful Georgia accidental erstwhile NASCAR operator John Wes Townley was changeable to decease successful a quality that progressive a hatchet aft showing up astatine a location occupied by his estranged woman and different man.
A connection by constabulary successful Athens says the 31-year-old Townley had the limb astatine immoderate constituent earlier helium was fatally wounded by 32-year-old Zachary Anderson of Dunwoody, Georgia.
They accidental 30-year-old Laura Townley besides was earnestly wounded but is expected to survive.
No charges person been filed and an probe continues.
Townley raced for 8 seasons successful NASCAR's little 2 nationalist divisions.
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