Chelsea Donovan
Reporter at WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)
Regional Murrow winner, Decade + reporting news, multiple markets. Crime junkie, curiosity seeker, storyteller. Pickleball addict.. 🍀🌈
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2 weeks ago |
wral.com | Chelsea Donovan
A Wake County man charged with manslaughter after he ran over his child’s grandmother received a court-appointed attorney on Monday and is due in court again later this month. Apex police said Bradford Brown drove into and killed Fukuyo Koketsu Bryant, the grandmother of a child at the center of a custody exchange. Bryant was 72 years old. “I am so sorry for this,” Brown said in court on Monday. Brown, 35, is charged with voluntary manslaughter, but Apex police believe more charges are possible.
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2 weeks ago |
wral.com | Chelsea Donovan
A former North Carolina State football player was charged with child abuse after an infant was left with serious injuries. Tyler Baker-Williams was charged for injuries his child suffered, according to warrants. Court documents said he "did intentionally inflict serious bodily injury" on a 5-month-old, who suffered a fractured toe, fractured rib and fractured ankle. Baker-Williams, 25, played at NC State as a defensive back from 2018 to 2022 and at Southeast Raleigh High School prior to that.
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3 weeks ago |
wral.com | Chelsea Donovan
There are more than 6,000 international students at NC State from 120 different countries, many of them on visas, however two students had their lives turned upside down last week, and were forced to rush to get a flight back home, thousands of miles away. "My roommate came out of his room with a shocked distraught look on his face," said NC State Senior Philip Vasto. Then Vasto said his roommate started to panic.
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3 weeks ago |
wral.com | Chelsea Donovan
On Thursday, the Johnston County Sheriff's Office received a report that a West Johnston High School teacher sexually assaulted a student at the school. Following an investigation, which included the student's account, Joshua Johnson, 38, of Benson, was charged with two counts of indecent liberties with a student. Johnson was being held at the Johnston County jail under a $75,000 secured bond. Johnson worked as a chorus teacher at the school.
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1 month ago |
wral.com | Chelsea Donovan
It is a crime that is hidden in plain sight, prevalent all over North Carolina. The details of what happened on Hat Walt Lane are disturbing. "It doesn't matter the economic status or neighborhood you live in, everyone is accessible online," said Pam Strickland with ENC Stop Human Trafficking. North Carolina is seeing a record number of human trafficking cases -- 235 were reported statewide in 2023, the last year for which data is available. A search warrant details how one case unfolded in Wendell.
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