Machete attack by stranger in rural North Carolina unnerves victim
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A North Carolina man wielded a machete against a Macclesfield couple Friday morning, but his efforts were the embodiment of bringing a knife to a gunfight: After the husband broke away, the wife shot at the assailant, sending him scurrying back to his car. Carlos Antonio Washington, 36, of Tarboro was caught by deputies responding …