A CARTER COUNTY MAN ACCUSED OF SHOOTING HIS FRIEND LAST MONTH DURING AN EVENING GET-TOGETHER HAS HAD HIS MURDER CHARGE REDUCED DURING A PRELIMINARY HEARING. 37 YEAR OLD LARRY ELSWICK IS NOW CHARGED WITH VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER, WHICH IS A LESS OFFENSE THAT SECOND DEGREE MURDER. 49 YEAR OLD RONALD GREEN WAS SHOT IN THE ABDOMEN AFTER AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN THE TWO ON SEPTEMBER 15TH AT A HOME ON POWDER BRANCH ROAD. MEANWHILE, ELSWICK REPORTEDLY SHOT ANOTHER MAN UNDER SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES AT HIS HOME IN JOHNSON CITY TWO YEARS AGO, BUT THE CHARGES WERE DROPPED AFTER THE VICTIM FAILED TO SHOW UP FOR COURT. ELSWICK’S BOND HAS BEEN REDUCED FROM 100-THOUSAND TO TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS AND HE WILL APPEAR IN FOR ARRAIGNMENT IN CRIMINAL COURT ON NOVEMBER 26TH. THE STATE CAN STILL INDICT HIM ON THE SECOND DEGREE MURDER CHARGE.