Matt Stewart
Unresolved
Unresolved Productions
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🗓️ 11 October 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Just after midnight, Matt and Angel Stewart were sleeping when an unknown individual opened fire on them from their bedroom doorway. Angel grabbed the couple's young son, who was also asleep in the room, and began running to a neighbor's house; while 31-year-old Matt - who had already been shot - jumped out of bed and heroically attacked the gunman.
Hours later, Matt's body would be found inside of the home, having become the victim of a mysterious and violent crime. But more than a decade later, questions continue to linger about what really happened that evening and why...
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| 0:00.0 | Investigators are trying to figure out who shot a father of three in his own home and why. |
| 0:09.3 | When police arrived, they found 31-year-old father of three Matthew Stewart dead in his upstairs |
| 0:15.0 | bathroom. |
| 0:16.0 | This is not a type of typical crime that we have in Warsaw and it's been especially |
| 0:20.0 | not in this neighborhood. |
| 0:21.7 | Investigators say there is no sign of forced entry and they can't tell if anything's missing |
| 0:25.6 | from the home right now they are just as baffled as neighbors. |
| 0:30.3 | She was grabbing the baby and running, Matt went after the guy and from what I understand |
| 0:37.9 | they shot him in the heart. |
| 0:41.1 | Right now, state and local investigators are going through every single inch of this house. |
| 0:46.0 | They're trying to find any sort of evidence that could give them some sort of clue as |
| 0:49.3 | to who could have done this or why. |
| 0:51.7 | Right now, neighbors and friends say they are baffled. |
| 0:54.0 | They can't understand why anyone would target a family that spent their lives serving |
| 0:58.6 | others, break into their house and shoot them. |
| 1:09.6 | Matthew Ryan Stewart was born on March 14, 1978 in the town where he would spend his entire |
| 1:16.3 | life. |
| 1:17.3 | Moorsville, a decent sized town in North Carolina's Iardell County, which is a rather affluent |
| 1:23.5 | suburb of Charlotte. |
| 1:25.2 | Many refer to Moorsville as race city USA due to it housing several NASCAR and IndyCar |
| 1:31.3 | racing teams and drivers and more than 30,000 people called it home as of the last census |
| 1:37.6 | in 2010. |
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