Police: Former NASCAR driver killed in dispute involving estranged wife

Authorities successful Georgia accidental erstwhile NASCAR operator John Wes Townley was fatally changeable connected Saturday arsenic helium attacked his estranged woman and different antheral with a hatchet.

According to Athens police, officers arrived astatine a residence and recovered Laura Townley, 30, and John Townley, 31, shot.

Police said John Townley showed up astatine the location occupied by Laura and Zachary Anderson, 32, with a hatchet.

During the altercation, Anderson fired respective shots from his gun, striking John and Laura.

Both victims were transported to a adjacent hospital, wherever John was aboriginal pronounced dead. Laura was earnestly injured, but she is expected to survive, constabulary said.

According to NBC News, John drove a car owned by his father, Tony Townley, who co-founded Zaxby’s edifice chain.

The Associated Press reported that Townley made 186 starts crossed the NASCAR Xfinity and Truck Series, whose lone vocation triumph was six years ago.