{"id":124979,"date":"2025-03-13T16:14:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T20:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thencbeat.com\/?p=124979"},"modified":"2025-03-13T16:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T20:14:52","slug":"butner-man-charged-with-mothers-murder-allegedly-used-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/butner-man-charged-with-mothers-murder-allegedly-used-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Butner Man Charged with Mother&#8217;s Murder, Allegedly Used Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong> Charles Brenner Washington<\/strong>, a 38-year-old of <strong>Butner, <a href=\"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/tag\/north-carolina\/\">North Carolina<\/a><\/strong>, has been charged with the murder of his 69-year-old mother, <strong>Wanda Washington<\/strong>. The fatal incident, which occurred at their home on the <em>1800 block of West B Street<\/em>, marks the community&#8217;s first homicide since <em>2014.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Law enforcement officials reported that Wanda was found deceased at the scene, with a hammer identified as the weapon used in the brutal attack. Authorities quickly arrested Charles, charging him with first-degree murder. The investigation is ongoing, and officials are working tirelessly to understand the sequence of events leading to this heart-wrenching crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_124981\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124981\" style=\"width: 643px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-124981 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/thencbeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_9920-643x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"1024\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-124981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Brenner Washington, 38, a Butner resident, has been arrested and charged with the first-degree murder of his mother, Wanda Washington.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Wanda Washington was known as a respected member of the community, and the Washington family has been a staple in Butner for years. Local residents have expressed their grief over the loss, while community leaders are urging residents to come together to support those affected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Charles Washington is currently being held without bond at the <strong>Granville County Detention Center.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Brenner Washington, a 38-year-old of Butner, North Carolina, has been charged with the murder of his 69-year-old mother, Wanda Washington. The fatal incident, which occurred at their home on the 1800 block of West B Street, marks the community&#8217;s first homicide since 2014. Law enforcement officials reported that Wanda was found deceased at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5224,5225,38,4353,5226],"class_list":["post-124979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-news","tag-butner-homicide","tag-butner-nc-news","tag-north-carolina","tag-north-carolina-crime","tag-wanda-washington-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}