Parole granted for man who opened fire outside Pender County club
PENDER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — The man who received a life sentence for murder is getting out of prison in 2021.
According to the Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission, they approved parole for Terry Dion James.
Hartense James, who had left the club after getting a warning from another patron who James had told not to go back in because he and his friends were going “to shoot the place up” was shot as he tried to get in his car and start it. James died at the hospital from the gunshot wound.
James was convicted in 1994.
In September, the state announced James was up for parole. He is eligible for the state’s Mutual Agreement Parole Program (MAPP), because he committed his crimes before a change in North Carolina’s sentencing laws did away with parole in October 1994.
He will be released January 19, 2021.
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