NEWTON, N.C. (AP) — Eight people have now been arrested and charged in connection with last weekend’s shootings at a western North Carolina house party where a barrage of gunfire ended with one person dead and 11 others injured, authorities said.

Five defendants whose arrests were announced Thursday or early Friday by the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office made court appearances Friday. Four of the five were facing one count each of attempted first-degree murder. A judge ordered two of those four to remain in jail without bond, according to the Catawba County Clerk of Court’s office.

But late Friday, the sheriff’s office announced that 10 additional counts of attempted first-degree murder had been filed against each of the four who already faced one similar count. All four were jailed pen

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