Former Charlotte radio character discovered useless in automotive of ‘blunt trauma,’ sheriff says

Doug Maxwell, whose distinctive voice resonated with radio listeners as he up to date Charlotte visitors from a single-engine Cessna airplane, was found dead of “blunt force trauma” in a automotive exterior his Davie County house Wednesday morning, the sheriff’s workplace stated.

Deputies arrested 29-year-old Isidro Rivera Aguero Jr., who lived in the identical house in Advance because the 62-year-old Maxwell, and charged him with homicide, in line with a sheriff’s workplace assertion.

Aguero was within the Davie County Detention Heart below a $2 million bond Saturday.

Investigators aren’t saying in the event that they know what prompted the killing.

Deputies discovered Maxwell useless about 8:15 a.m. after responding to a name from 888 Underpass Highway “in reference to unknown medical name,” in line with the sheriff’s workplace assertion.

Maxwell was a divorced father of 5 who previously lived in Cornelius, Charlotte lawyer and longtime buddy Bob Bollinger advised The Charlotte Observer on Friday.

Bollinger stated Maxwell had well being points in recent times, and Bollinger thought sickness might need precipitated his demise when a mutual buddy notified him that Maxwell had died.

“I used to be shocked that he had been murdered,” Bollinger stated.

The pair had been buddies since their days as frat brothers within the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity on the College of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1980-81, Bollinger stated.

“At all times outgoing,” buddy stated

Maxwell was an “on-air talent” with Charlotte information speak station 1110 WBT AM and Charlotte grownup scorching hits station 107.9 FM for six and a half years, from October 2010 to February 2017, in line with his Linkedin profile. Bollinger stated that expertise was as a visitors reporter with a voice like a TV station anchor.

For the previous seven and a half years, he was an government account supervisor with Valuebiz Office Furniture in Charlotte.

“He was outgoing, extroverted,” Bollinger stated. “At all times straightforward to speak to. Pleasant. At all times pleasant.”

Which makes his demise so arduous to know, Bollinger stated.

This can be a growing story that will probably be up to date.