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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) – A group of students stole car keys and money from a North Carolina teacher’s purse before crashing into the vehicle they took to a tree , said a sheriff’s office.
Reports from the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office indicate that a suspect took car keys and a purse with money from a teacher’s tote bag at Wiley Middle School, reported the Winston-Salem Journal. Schools in Winston-Salem / Forsyth County have also confirmed the incident.
Winston-Salem police spotted the vehicle around 7 p.m. Wednesday. Hours later, the sheriff’s office said, a person driving the stolen Jeep Cherokee crashed into a tree. The driver fled and three underage passengers were taken to hospital with injuries that are not considered life threatening, officials said.
School district spokesman Brent Campbell said security and surveillance cameras have helped law enforcement identify students, who will be punished in accordance with district policy. Specific details are protected by federal student privacy laws, Campbell said.
Gunman outside Walmart was shot and killed
CHARLOTTE (AP) – Two police officers on duty in North Carolina’s largest city have been placed on administrative leave as the circumstances of a fatal shooting of a gunman outside a Walmart come under scrutiny ‘an investigation, authorities said on Saturday.
The State Bureau of Investigation is examining Friday’s shooting by police officers in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. The police department identified the dead gunman on Saturday as 23-year-old Derrell Lamar Raney.
According to a police press release, a security guard hired by Walmart at a store in east Charlotte told police shortly before 6 p.m. that a man had pointed a gun at him and had also threatened to shoot police if they responded.
Police Chief Johnny Jennings said officers found the subject in the parking lot, WCNC-TV reported. The police perceived a “deadly threat” when approaching the man, according to the police statement
“When the officers encountered the subject, he pointed a gun at the officers,†Jennings said. “They shot and injured the individual.” Raney was pronounced dead in hospital. Police said a gun was recovered from the scene.
The officers involved in the shooting have been identified by the department as James Longworth, who joined the agency in 2018, and Micah Edmunds, who was hired in 2016. It is standard policy for officers to be put in administrative leave when they unload their weapon.
Former academic accused of embezzling $ 900,000
DURHAM (AP) – A former information technology worker at the Central University of North Carolina has been accused of embezzling $ 900,000 from the school, officials said.
Kenya Mr Ward, 44, of Durham, is charged with embezzlement of state property, according to an arrest warrant. Media reports that North Carolina Central said Friday that Ward no longer works for the school.
In a statement, NC Central said it received an internal investigation into the embezzlement and conducted an investigation. Ward is accused of embezzling nearly $ 900,285 from the university’s bookstore and food service, according to the arrest warrant.
Ward was the Eagle Card business and technology applications analyst / office manager, the tenure said. The Office of Business and Ancillary Services oversees the bookstore, food service, and the Eagle Card office.
Ward was arrested Thursday and released from jail on $ 1 million unsecured bail, court documents show. She said she was not guilty.
The alleged crime occurred from January 2018 to April this year, according to the arrest warrant issued on August 23.
Officers assaulted
in prison, 1 stabbed
CHARLOTTE (AP) – Three officers at a North Carolina prison were assaulted by an inmate they were trying to transfer to a disciplinary unit away from the general population, the sheriff’s office said.
The three officers were attempting to move 39-year-old inmate Eric Henderson to the Mecklenburg County Jail holding unit on Tuesday, The Charlotte Observer reported. Henderson refused to obey the officers’ orders and stabbed one of them with “homemade weapons,” the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office said.
The injured officer was treated by prison medical staff before being taken to hospital before being released, according to the sheriff’s office, which added that the other two officers suffered minor injuries and did not not putting their lives in danger.
Henderson is charged with possession of a weapon by a prisoner, assault with a lethal weapon with intent to kill or cause serious bodily harm and assault causing serious bodily harm to a law enforcement officer, probation, parole or someone employed in a state or local detention facility, according to the sheriff’s office.
2 children injured when the bullet hits a vehicle while driving
DURHAM (AP) – Two children were gunned down while sitting in the back seat of a vehicle in a Burger King drive-thru Thursday night, the County Durham Sheriff’s Office said.
The vehicle was hit by a bullet at the Burger King on US Highway 70, smashing glass and hitting two children in the back seat, the sheriff’s office said in a statement Friday. The family fled and took the children to hospital for treatment of injuries that were not considered life threatening, officials said.
Witnesses reported hearing gunshots nearby as the vehicle was struck, but no suspects were seen, the sheriff’s office said. The family is not considered the intended target.
