Suspect shot himself while being served warrant in Nash County

A suspect shot himself when the U.S. Marshals Service was attempting to serve a warrant, according to the Nash County Sheriff's Office.
Posted 4/22/2025, 12:30:00 PM Updated 4/22/2025, 9:37:35 PM

>> INVESTIGATORS ARE HELPING

RALEIGH POLICE, THE NAMES OF

THE SUSPECTS HAVE NOT BEEN

RELEASED. A MAN IS DEAD AFTER

SHOOTING AND KILLING HIMSELF.

ALL U.S. MARSHALS TRYING TO

SERVE A WARRANT.

>> SKY 5 FLEW OVER THE SCENE OF

A HOME ON CRABTREE LANE IN NASH

COUNTY THIS MORNING. DONALD

FIELD WAS WANTED IN 2 OTHER

STATES FOR EVADING POLICE AND

SECOND-DEGREE MURDER. WRAL'S

CHELSEA DONOVAN JOINS US NOW

LIVE WITH HOW NEIGHBORS CAN'T

BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN

THEIR SMALL TOWN. CHELSEA.

YES, SO THIS WAS A MAN THAT WAS

CONVICTED OF A MURDER. 25 YEARS

AGO, HE GOT OUT ON PAROLE AND

THEN HE IS ALLEGED TO HAVE

COMMITTED ANOTHER MURDER AND

THEN ESCAPED DOWN HERE TO A

TINY TOWN.

>> IN NASH COUNTY AND TODAY

THAT MAN SHOT HIMSELF IN THE

HEAD IN FRONT OF NASH COUNTY

DEPUTIES AND U.S. MARSHALS AND

ANOTHER RELATIVE INSIDE THE

HOME WAS ARRESTED.

DEPUTIES AND U.S. MARSHALS

SPENT HOURS SURROUNDING THIS

UNASSUMING HOME IN CASTALIA AND

THEY COME TO PLACES LIKE WHO

WOULD THEY CAN CAST A IN A

QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD IN MOVING

>> YOU END UP WITH ALL THIS

TALK ABOUT TO SHERIFF KEITH

STONE SAID EARLY THIS MORNING,

THE U.S. MARSHALS WERE

ATTEMPTING TO SERVE A SECOND

DEGREE MURDER WARRANT OUT OF

CONNECTICUT ON THIS MAN, 40

YEAR-OLD DONALD FIELDS. HE

TAKES ALL.

>> ACROSS THE SAFETY OF ITS

THE DEPUTY PERCENT SAY I'M A

COMMENT. THAT OKAY. BE TAKEN

BACK. IF YOU CAN'T GO THROUGH

THIS OR SOMETHING OF THAT

NATURE, IT TAKES TO BE HONEST

EXCEPT TO SAY IT.

>> WE POST SUGAR WHILE AT THE

RESIDENTS, NASH COUNTY DEPUTIES

AND MARSHALS FOUND ANOTHER MAN

WANTED ON

FEDERAL CHARGES. LONI HOLLOWAY.

SO THEY ARREST HIM TO THESE

TYPE OF INDIVIDUAL SETTLE.

>> ROAMED THE STREETS ARE VERY

DANGEROUS INDIVIDUALS. THEY'RE

DANGEROUS TO THE COMMUNITY AND

THAT THE END LOT OF LAW

ENFORCEMENT, IT'S WHAT STOPS

HIM FROM CONTINUING TO COME ON

ACROSS FIELDS WAS CONVICTED

OF A MURDER IN 2000. HE SPENT

20 YEARS IN PRISON.

>> GOT OUT AND IS ALLEGED TO

HAVE COMMITTED ANOTHER MURDER

IN NEW YORK BEFORE GOING ON THE

RUN. WHEN I CAME AND MY

GOODNESS, WHAT IS GOING ON AND

AND ALL THESE DEPUTIES, THIS

INCIDENT ALARMING TO RESIDENTS

WHO LIVED IN THIS RURAL TOWN

FOR DECADES. I FEEL LIKE AT

THAT THEY DO WHAT THEY GOTTA

DO, THAT WE COULD GET BACK TO

NORMALCY.

>> NASH COUNTY, SHERIFF

DEPUTIES SERVED A SEARCH

WARRANT ON THE HOME EARLIER

TODAY. THEY FOUND COCAINE,

FENTANYL AS WELL AS HEROIN AS