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The Old Salisbury Road shooting was a mass shooting in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, committed by Michael Charles Hayes (born January 13, 1964) [3] on July 17, 1988. Hayes shot nine people, killing four of them; his subsequent successful use of the insanity defense in courts created a statewide controversy in the early 1990s.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina: 1 0 1: 13-year-old Ernest Napoleon Carter Jr. was accidentally killed by a 13-year-old classmate at Hanes Junior High School who was armed with a pistol. The shooter was charged with involuntary manslaughter. Carter's mother filed a lawsuit against the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education for $50,000 in ...
Bitter Blood is composed of various newspaper articles (from the Greensboro News and Record) and personal eyewitness accounts of several homicides in 1984 and 1985. The setting for the majority of the book is Rockingham County and Guilford County in rural North Carolina.
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We should be celebrating and learning from this crime drop, but we can’t do so when politicians pretend it isn’t happening. Second, speakers blamed immigrants for a wide range of crimes.
George Edward Wright (born March 29, 1943) is a Portuguese citizen of American origin, [1] known for taking part in the hijacking of Delta Air Lines Flight 841.Originally arrested and convicted for murder in 1962 and sentenced to up to 30 years in prison, George Wright escaped from prison in 1970 and hijacked a Delta Air Lines flight in 1972 with a number of accomplices.
Darryl Hunt (February 24, 1965 – March 13, 2016) was an African-American man from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who, in 1984, was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape and the murder of Deborah Sykes, a young white newspaper copy editor. After being convicted in that case, Hunt was tried in 1987 for the 1983 ...
Jim Broyhill, a Republican politician; served North Carolina in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate; Ted Budd, former United States Representative and United States Senator from North Carolina [27] Richard Burr, United States Senator; Irving E. Carlyle, North Carolina lawyer and state leader; R. Thurmond Chatham, U.S. House of ...