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Escapee dies after crashing stolen pickup

By Bill Moss, Published: February 26, 2018

A Gaston Correctional Center minimum custody inmate who left his outside work assignment was killed Monday afternoon when he crashed a stolen pickup truck on I-85.

David A. Woods, who was reported missing at 12:50 p.m., was driving a city of Lowell Ford pickup truck when it crashed at Exit 14 off Interstate 85 at approximately 2:15 p.m. The Gastonia Police Department is investigating the accident. The Division of Prisons will investigate the circumstances surrounding his escape.

Originally from New Hanover County, Woods, 46, was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder and convicted on May 25, 1995.