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A North Carolina dairyman, Zach Myers, was injured during a string of crime early Monday morning in Wilkes County, N.C. James Monroe Barrett fired at deputies at 5:30 a.m. after a domestic dispute and is suspected of setting fire to his house and fleeing into a nearby wooded area.
Officials said 60-year-old James Monroe Barrett fired at a Wilkes County deputy Sgt. Steven Russell, a neighbor, and also local dairy farmer Zach Myers, who appears to have been driving in the area at the time, though details are not clear. The suspect was later killed in a standoff with police.
All three injured parties are expected to make full recoveries. Barrett, was later involved in a shootout with law enforcement in Ronda. He was taken into custody after being shot, but later died at the hospital.
His mother, Barbara Myers, gave an account of Facebook that Zach was shot at 6 a.m. also, was out of surgery at 5 p.m. with a broad injury yet it was not life undermining.
Myers is the co-owner of Myers Dairy Inc., a commercial dairy farming operation that milks more than 900 cows daily. He earned his NC State University bachelor’s degree in biology (then in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences) and a master’s degree in dairy cattle nutrition and animal sciences from Michigan State University. Zach Myers is Chair of the National Dairy Board. He was elected vice chair in 2013 and elected chair of the 38-member board last November.
