A curious neighbor who called police, helped solve the case of a violent serial killer that rocked the Upstate.
Thirty miles away from a community gripped by fear, a Gaston County man's phone call to 911 helped catch Patrick Tracy Burris.
The story begins early Monday morning in Dallas, NC. Michael and Terry Valentine live less than 200 feet across from an abandoned home where Burris and two others entered in the middle of the night.
Michael saw the Ford Explorer sneak under a carport; he recognized the vehicle from descriptions given by police as the one they were looking for from Cherokee County. He called 911. Police arrived, and the couple heard shouts, then gunfire, then an officer's cry that he was hit. Officers fired back, and soon thereafter, Burris was dead and one officer was rushed to a local hospital, and later released with a gunshot wound to the leg.
Valentine spoke first with NewsChannel 7's Jonathan Carlson moments after Sheriff Blanton declared Burris the killer.
Watch Raw Interviews with the Valentine's before it was announced their tip led police to the serial killer.
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