MILL SPRING, NC. (THECOUNT) — Cindy Walker has been identified as the Mill Spring, NC, woman found beaten to death in her residence Wednesday. Her son Jack has since been arrested in what police at calling a homicide.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office officials were called to perform a welfare check at a home after an injured man arrived at a Tennessee hospital telling staff he’d possibly killed his own mother. That man was later identified as Jack Walker.
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Police then went to the woman’s Mill Spring residence where she was located dead.
Deputies said they were called out early Wednesday morning to conduct a welfare dress at an address on Highway 9 South. Deputies found the woman dead when they arrived. She wasn’t identified until Wednesday evening as Cindy Walker following an inter-state investigation. Nashville police later identified the man as 27-year-old Jack Walker when they arrested him later on Wednesday. According to North Precinct detectives, Walker showed up to General Hospital with superficial scratches on his hands and told staff he tried to kill his mother, adding on she might be dead. Based on his account and on the discovery of his mother’s Jeep in the hospital parking garage with a bloody shirt in the passenger seat, Metro Nashville Police contacted PCSO and asked deputies to check on Cindy Walker. PCSO would then finder her dead in her home with apparent trauma. source
MNPD says PCSO swore out a homicide warrant against Jack Walker. He is also charged in Nashville with being a fugitive from justice, and is expected to be returned to North Carolina in the coming days.
A spokesperson for the SBI said at the time Walker’s death is being investigated as a homicide and that a suspect had been arrested in Tennessee.
Anyone with possible information on the case should contact police at 911.
Mill Spring is an unincorporated community in Polk County, North Carolina, United States. Mill Spring is located at the junction of North Carolina Highway 9 and North Carolina Highway 108 3.7 miles northeast of Columbus. Mill Spring has a post office with ZIP code 28756, according to Wikipedia.