Raleigh’s 78th annual Christmas Parade was cancelled an hour after it began Saturday when the driver of a truck pulling a float lost control and rolled into the back of a group of young dancers, killing one. Video from the scene shows that the truck, pulling the CC & Company Dance Complex float behind its …
A North Carolina teenager leapt from a moving car when she feared she may have been drugged by a Lyft driver. Eziya Bowden, 17, said the driver first made inappropriate comments about her looks and that he’d date her if she wasn’t so young, then sprayed something in the air multiple times. “How many boys …
Raleigh police have released new details on a mass shooting that took place in a quiet neighborhood in the North Carolina capital just a week ago. A 15-year-old high school sophomore, Austin Thompson, remains hospitalized in critical condition after he was shot near the end of the 4 1/2 hour ordeal in Raleigh’s Hedingham neighborhood …
One of the victims was the 15-year-old suspect’s older brother.
A 15-year-old suspect is hospitalized in critical condition after a mass shooting in a bucolic residential neighborhood bordering the Neuse River Greenway of east Raleigh. Five people, including an off-duty police officer and a 16-year-old boy, were killed in the shooting, and two others were wounded, including another police officer who was treated and released. …
Update: The suspect is in custody. He is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. It’s not known if they were self-inflicted. Original story: Five people were shot and killed by a gunman Thursday in a Raleigh neighborhood perched along the Neuse River Greenway in the east of the North Carolina capital. One of the dead was an …
Update: 8:45 p.m.: Raleigh police say they believe the suspect is in a barn near the crime scene. Police have the barn surrounded and are working to make entry to the barn, WRAL reports. They do not know the suspect’s condition. Update 8:30 p.m.: Raleigh police now say no suspects are in custody. A news …
A North Carolina woman charged with the deaths of her two toddler children made her first court appearance on Monday and was denied bond. Launice Shanique Battle, 29, was arrested and charged with first degree murder Saturday at Duke Raleigh Hospital, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Police have not yet said how the children — ages …
A North Carolina woman has been arrested and charged with felony murder in the deaths of two toddlers on Saturday. Arrest warrants say that Launice Shanique Battle, 29, killed the two girls, a 2-year-old and a 3-year-old, WNCN reports. Raleigh Police arrested Battle at Duke Raleigh Hospital Sunday morning. The warrants did not say how …
The owner of a highly venomous cobra that escaped into a residential North Carolina neighborhood last week has been cited for 36 counts of improper enclosures, three counts of mislabeled enclosures, and one count of not reporting an escape. Police said Wednesday that Christopher Gifford, 21, violated several provisions of a detailed state law that …
An 18-year-old North Carolina woman has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a 69-year-old man found with “serious injuries” Friday night in a Wake County cemetery. Raleigh Police said they were called to Mount Olivet Cemetery just after 10 p.m. and found James Lacy Taylor badly injured. He was taken to …
A 27-year-old man has been charged with murder after a 4-year-old girl died from injuries sustained in an incident at a North Carolina hotel. Milton Ray Horton Jr was arrested by Raleigh police and is being held without bond, the Raleigh News & Observer said. Police responded to the Candlewood Suites in Raleigh at about …
