Man allegedly killed special needs adult, two others in N.C.

MORGANTON, N.C. - A man is accused of fatally beating his girlfriend, her adult son with special needs and a family friend, at a home in North Carolina.

Police Chief Ronnie Rector said at a news conference Monday that murder warrants have been issued for 56-year-old Donald Kincaid. CBS affiliate WBTV reports Kincaid was already in protective custody when the warrants were issued.

Sources told the station Kincaid was being kept at a hospital, where he was receiving treatment for physical ailments and also undergoing a mental evaluation.

Paramedics called police after getting a strange 911 call asking for help around 1 a.m. Sunday at a home in Morganton, N.C., according to authorities. The chief said 54-year-old Barbara Johnson, her 21-year-old son Freddie Thompson and 75-year-old family friend Zakiya El Day were found dead inside.

"My sister never harmed anybody," Adrian Avery, Johnson's sister, told the station. "Never had a mean spirit in her body. It's devastating. We don't know what to think or why this happened." As for her nephew, Avery said Thompson was "the joy of everybody's life."

Rector said the killing was some kind of domestic dispute and that the bodies were being sent for autopsies, but the victims likely were beaten to death.

It wasn't known if Kincaid had a lawyer.