A property owner's family member discovered the wreckage south of the runway. The pilot, from Morganton or Blue Ridge, was alone aboard.

A mother ran through a Terrell Mill Road parking lot yelling for help before officers forced their way into the apartment and found her young child unharmed.

Alexandra Alston, 56, died inside her Watkins Street home. Deputies want to question a bearded man who may have been soliciting employment door to door nearby.