A Bakersville man who garnered attention on Monday, June 5 for throwing eggs at cars now faces several charges.
Christopher Michael Gouge was arrested by officers from Mitchell County Sheriff’s Department and faces charges of misdemeanor breaking and entering, injury to personal property, resisting arrest, going armed to the terror of the people and felony breaking and entering with the purpose to terrorize or injure.
Deputies responded on June 5 to a call at the Bakersville Community Health Clinic of a male suspect throwing eggs at nearby cars. Minutes later, another call came in from the clinic saying that the male subject, later identified as Gouge, was attempting to forcibly enter the upstairs area of the clinic.
In a surveillance video from the clinic, Gouge can be seen throwing eggs at cars in the clinic parking lot and trying to break open the locked door on the second floor.
When a clinic employee approached and questioned him, Gouge screamed that he was “there to see the director.”
Deputies recovered a handgun from Gouge and four eyewitness accounts confirmed he had unholstered the gun at times during the incident.
Gouge is being held in McDowell County Jail on a $33,000 bond and will appear in court on July 12.