Doug Maxwell, whose distinctive voice resonated with radio listeners as he updated Charlotte traffic, was found dead of “blunt violence” in a car outside his Davie County home Wednesday morning, the sheriff’s office said.
Deputies arrested 29-year-old Isidro Rivera Aguero Jr., who lived in the same home in Advance as the 62-year-old Maxwell, and charged him with murder, according to a statement from the sheriff’s office.
Aguero was in the Davie County Detention Center under a $2 million bond Saturday.
Investigators are not saying if they know what prompted the killing.
Deputies found Maxwell dead about 8:15 a.m. after responding to a call from 888 Underpass Road “in reference to an unknown medical call,” according to the sheriff’s office statement.
Maxwell was a divorced father of five who previously lived in Cornelius, Charlotte attorney and longtime friend Bob Bollinger told The Charlotte Observer on Friday.
Bollinger said Maxwell had health problems in recent years, and Bollinger believed illness might have caused his death when a mutual friend notified him that Maxwell had died.
“I was shocked that he had been murdered,” Bollinger said.
The pair had been friends since their days as brothers in the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1980-81, Bollinger said.
“Always outgoing,” said the friend
Maxwell was a “talent in the air” with the Charlotte News talk station 1110 WBT AM and Charlotte adult hot hits station 107.9 FM for six and a half years, from October 2010 to February 2017, according to his Linkedin profile. Bollinger said talent was like a traffic reporter with a voice like a TV station anchor.
For the past seven and a half years, he was executive account manager with Valuebiz Office furniture in Charlotte.
“He was outgoing, extroverted,” Bollinger said. “Always easy to talk to. Friendly. Always friendly.”
Which makes his death so difficult to understand, Bollinger said.
This is a development story that will be updated.