A 17-year-old girl was found shot to death inside her car at a a North Carolina Bojangles restaurant Saturday night, and police are searching for clues as to what happened. Raleigh police said they were investigating Veronica Lee Baker’s death as a homicide, WRAL reported. The Raleigh News & Observer said officers were called the …
Two women were shot and killed Friday afternoon at a North Carolina Family Dollar store when a man fired gunshots into their vehicles, WRAL reported. Lumberton police identified the victims as Kayla Kyle, 32, and Kimberly Hunt, 41. Witnesses told police a man in a hoodie fired into several vehicles just before 5 p.m., and …
A North Carolina man who won a $10 million lottery prize nearly three years ago was arrested Tuesday in connection with the death of a woman who was found in a hotel room a day earlier. A housekeeper at the Sure Stay Hotel reportedly discovered Keonna Graham, 23, dead in a third-floor room Monday morning. …
A 21-year-old North Carolina woman has been charged with attempted murder after she left her newborn baby boy in a trash bin behind a church, where a dog walker heard the baby’s cries and saved his life. Maryuri Estefany Calix-Macedo is being held at the New Hanover County Jail on an $800,000 bond after an …
The North Carolina Department of Public Safety has issued a Silver Alert for an “endangered” woman who reportedly vanished with her young son after her vehicle became disabled. The agency said Nenna Williford, 42, was last seen traveling northbound on I-85 in Thomasville. Williford reportedly has dementia or another cognitive impairment, prompting the statewide alert. …
Although police frequently caution against it, 4th of July celebrants often fire their guns into the air, perhaps forgetting, in their glee, that what goes up must come down. Too often when those bullets come down, the result is death. Paulette Thorpe, 74, died Saturday from just such a celebration in Durham, North Carolina, the …
Hanover County District Attorney Benjamin David told NPR that his office is reviewing 89 cases involving three former Wilmington police officers fired for allegedly making racist, threatening remarks about Black people. David said that amid the review, they have already dismissed some cases involving James Gilmore, Jesse Moore II, and Kevin Piner, who were fired …
The Wilmington, North Carolina, Police Department fired three of its officers on Wednesday for “hate-filled speech” caught on a patrol car camera, WECT reports. Two of the officers — Cpl Jess Moore and Officer James Gilmore — had been with the department for 23 years, while Officer Michael Piner was a 22-year veteran. The three …
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Deputies in North Carolina have charged a Lincoln County man with murder in the death of his two-year-old son earlier this month, WCNC reports. Baron Gerod Charles Sr. 54, is being held without bond at the Harven A. Crouse Detention Center, the station said. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said paramedics were called to the …
A North Carolina teen was arrested Sunday after a video surfaced on social media allegedly showing her abusing her young child. WRAL reported that the video appears to show a toddler, wearing only a diaper, sitting in the front passenger seat of a car as someone strikes the child in the stomach and head. Someone …
The ex-wife of a man charged with killing his former girlfriend was arrested and charged as an accessory this week as police in central North Carolina search for the body of the 23-year-old mother who hasn’t been seen in more than a year, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. Monica Moynan’s mother reported her missing …
