LINCOLNTON, N.C. — A North Carolina man wanted in the shooting of a woman and a 7-year-old girl was captured after he fell 50 feet off a cliff and into a quarry, a sheriff's office said Thursday. 

Deputies responding to a call late Wednesday found the 33-year-old woman lying on the kitchen floor of a home with multiple gunshot wounds to the back and the girl with a single gunshot wound to the back, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. The two were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, according to the sheriff's office.