Authorities said they were suspicious last May when a Wilkes County man claimed that he had shot someone in self-defense during a home invasion.
After investigating and waiting for laboratory tests, the Wilkes County Sheriff's Office arrested the man on Monday.
Bryan Jeffery Bare, 29, is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Randall Clinton Call, 44.
Bare was being held yesterday without bond in the Wilkes County jail.
Call was killed the night of May 4. Authorities found his body when they arrived at Bare's house at 4743 Statesville Road after getting a call about a home invasion.
Bare told authorities that Call entered through an unlocked door shortly before and had a weapon. Bare said he took the weapon away and shot Call with it, according to a sheriff's office report.
Chief Deputy Chris Shew said that Call was shot several times and was dead when authorities arrived.
Shew declined to comment on whether there were any witnesses, or the type of weapon or a possible motive.
At the time of the shooting, Bare was on probation for felony drug charges that included maintaining a place for controlled substance, according to N.C. Department of Correction records. He was convicted in August 2007 on that and other charges and sentenced to three years of probation.
Call, who lived in Purlear, had a history of drug-related convictions, according to correction-department records.
The most recent was a 2000 conviction on a misdemeanor drug-possession charge.
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