A National Guardsman tries to hire a hitman and buy several guns in an elaborate plot to kill the man who died after hitting his mother’s car nearly eight years ago.
Rhett Michael Barlow, 22, was arrested in Fort Liberty on Jan. 6 for solicitation to commit the first-degree murder of Donald Caulder, Jr., the Wake Forest Police Department said in a statement.
Barlow allegedly tried to hire a hitman on Nov. 28, 2023, to kill Caulder, according to an arrest warrant issued on Jan. 5, and obtained by The Post.
On the same day he tried to hire the hitman, Barlow bought a Springfield AR-15 rifle along with a second handgun, prosecutors revealed Monday, according to WRAL.
He has also requested a transfer with the Army to a position closer to Caulder.
“Caulder was involved in a fatal motor vehicle accident along Capital Boulevard/US 1 in Wake Forest that claimed the life of Barlow’s mother, Michelle,” the WFPD statement said.
Caulder was driving a garbage truck when he failed to slow down and crashed into the back of Michelle Barlow’s minivan, killing the mother of two, on March 22, 2016.
Rhett Michael Barlow was arrested on January 6 after he allegedly tried to hire a hitman to kill the man who hit his mother’s car in 2016. Wake Forest, NC, Donald Caulder Jr. Police Department. has been arrested and charged in the death of Michelle Barlow after she drove into her minivan with the garbage truck she was driving on March 22, 2016. Scotland County Jail
The 29-year-old man was arrested and charged with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle.
He pleaded guilty to the charge 10 months later and was given a suspended sentence with 12 months probation.
Authorities believe driver fatigue or distraction caused the fatal crash, according to WRAL.
Barlow, who is at Fort Liberty for training with the North Carolina National Guard, is a member of the 130th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade and has been a guard since 2019, the outlet reported.
Barlow was arrested by the US Army Criminal Investigation Division and later turned over to Wake Forest police before being booked into the Wake County Detention Center. WRAL News Michelle Barlow has died from injuries she suffered in a “chain reaction” crash on US 1/Capital Boulevard. WRAL Caulder was driving a garbage truck when he failed to slow down and crashed into the back of Michelle Barlow’s minivan, killing the mother of two, on March 22, 2016. WRAL News
He was taken into custody by the US Army Criminal Investigation Division and later turned over to Wake Forest police.
Barlow was charged with first-degree criminal mischief and is in the Wake County Detention Center on $1 million bond, according to police and jail records.
The man who tried to hire Barlow, will not be charged because he reported Barlow to the police.
During his initial court appearance Monday, a judge ordered Barlow to remain in jail on $1 million bond and undergo a mental health evaluation, according to court documents.
A disposition hearing in his case is scheduled for Jan. 29.
Michelle Barlow was an English teacher at Wake Forest High School before her death. WRAL’s Rhett Barlow, with his father and sister and Michelle Barlow’s funeral after her death in 2016.
In April, a Tennessee Air National Guardsman was arrested after applying to become a hitman on a fake website.
Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, is accused of using an interstate facility in the commission of murder-for-hire by using the bogus hitman website “Rentahitman.com.”
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