Murder charges dismissed for 2nd defendant in 2022 Arden-area Shell gas station shootings

ASHEVILLE — Two first-degree murder charges have been dropped for a second suspect in the shooting deaths of two people at a Fletcher gas station in December 2022. Following a week-long trial in Buncombe County Superior Court where Godiet Corral, 33, was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Sandy Elizabeth Torrey and Bryan Emmanuel Khopkar, Cody Wayne Dockins was cleared of first-degree murder charges for which he spent about a year-and-a- half in jail. Buncombe County Chief Public Defender Sam Snead, Dockins' attorney, told...