Real estate broker charged with assaulting wife
A Chatham County real estate broker was charged Friday with assaulting his estranged wife, authorities said Monday.
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Eric Andrews, 40, of 7324 Silk Hope Gum Springs Road, was charged with assault by strangulation, second-degree kidnapping, assault by pointing a gun, assault on a female and communicating threats. He was being held Monday in the Chatham County Jail under a $1 million bond.
Jennifer Andrews, a real estate attorney, told deputies that Eric Andrews assaulted her, pointed a gun at her and threatened her life during an altercation on Chapel Ridge Road in Pittsboro.
Eric Andrews surrendered to authorities, who confiscated a Smith & Wesson revolver.
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