West Asheville murder suspect used pipe, and gun before fleeing to Indiana

ASHEVILLE — During a September 2023 shooting in West Asheville, an assailant with a metal pipe shot through a home’s wooden door before fleeing to Indiana, where he was arrested by the state’s highway patrol, newly-released records reveal. Ismael Nazario Muñoz, 37, and his roommate were at their home on Oakview Road Sept. 2 when the roommate saw an “angry” individual approach Muñoz with a metal pipe, according to his death investigation report. “As the decedent attempted to close an outside wooden door to the individual, the individual fired into...