Lexi Solomon
Emerging News Reporter at The News & Observer
emerging news reporter @newsobserver. past @cityviewnc @fayobserver. @virginia_tech alum. Thoughts & opinions 100% mine. Send tips to [email protected]!
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1 week ago |
heraldsun.com | Lexi Solomon
Nearly three months after a fatal shooting at a North Hills restaurant, a newly released report has shed new light on the incident. George Colom Jr., 34, opened fire inside Coquette Brasserie during a staff meeting just before 11 a.m. Jan. 17, fatally wounding Jonathan Mark Schaffer, 26, The News & Observer previously reported. Colom also struck Jonathan Aguilar Vega, 24, who sustained non-life-threatening injuries, before turning the gun on himself. He died two days later.
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1 week ago |
newsobserver.com | Lexi Solomon
Durham County Sheriff Clarence Birkhead in an undated photo. Birkhead has publicly clashed with county commissioners in recent months over funding disagreements. In a charged email sent to Durham County residents in January, Sheriff Clarence Birkhead accused county leaders of failing to address problems at the jail, including broken fire alarms, that he said put detainees at risk. But how accurate the sheriff was remains unclear.
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1 week ago |
heraldonline.com | Lexi Solomon
A former lieutenant at a federal prison in Butner was sentenced to two years of probation Friday for violating an inmate’s civil rights. Daniel Mitchell, 42, pleaded guilty Dec. 23 to conspiring to violate the civil rights of an inmate only referred to in court documents as “K.G.,” according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
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1 week ago |
newsobserver.com | Lexi Solomon
More than two years after a fatal crash ended the lives of two Durham women, the driver responsible pleaded guilty in a Durham County courtroom Wednesday. Armonta Lamont Tyler, 28, of Raleigh was sentenced to a minimum of four years and 11 months and a maximum of five years and 11 months in prison for the Oct. 28, 2022, deaths of Cornisha Shaw, 24, and Courtney Simms, 23, court documents show.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Lexi Solomon
More than three months after a retired Durham teacher was killed and her son badly injured in a car crash, the driver of the other vehicle was arrested last week — and court records show he has a lengthy record of driving offenses. Nathane John Blackmon, 42, of Erwin is charged with felony death by vehicle, felony serious injury by vehicle, felony possession of a Schedule I controlled substance and misdemeanor simple possession of a Schedule IV controlled substance in the Dec.
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