TABOR CITY, N.C. AP – Most people know R.C. Soles as the state’s longest-serving senator. Over the past few years, however, he has been the central figure in a string of odd happenings, starting with former legal clients trespassing at his home and ending with him shooting one of them over the weekend, authorities say.
Soles, 74, a Democrat and soft-spoken attorney, has spent four decades in the General Assembly. Over the past two years, a house he paid for a former client to build himself has caught fire and young men he describes as former law clients have been charged with trespassing. A former client claimed recently that Soles molested him a decade ago, but the accuser later said he made the story up.
