LILLINGTON Harnett County deputies are looking for a man who is accused of killing one man and shooting another.
James Lee Jones Jr., 38, of Spring Lake, is charged with murder, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, possession of a firearm by a felon and six counts of assault with a deadly weapon with a minor present, according to a statement released Tuesday by the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office. Jones also is known as “Goldie” or “Jimmy,” it said.
Jones is accused of shooting Albert Charles Parisi Jr. and Tyshawn Robert Viera, the statement said. Parisi, 31, of Dimaggio Drive in Spring Lake, was killed. Viera, 30, of Connie Court in Spring Lake, had to be taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville, it said.
A rape crisis in NC: Shortage of nurses specially trained to examine victims of sexual assault By Frances Weller | January 26, 2021 at 2:30 PM EST - Updated January 26 at 5:41 PM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - A troubling, new report from Carolina Public Press uncovered a shortage across the state of sexual assault nurse examiners (SANE) nurses, who are specially trained to treat and help a victim of rape.
SANE nurses are one of the first in the emergency room when a woman or a man comes in after a traumatic sexual assault. They are trained in evidence collection after someone has been the victim of a sexual assault and know the type of care that a person that has been assaulted is likely to need, including the need for emergency contraceptives and what to do for prevention of sexually transmitted infections.
Editor’s note: This article is part 1 of a two-part investigative series from Carolina Public Press. After a sexual assault, survivors have choices to make
Some health departments and hospitals canceled appointments after receiving no additional vaccine doses this week.
Brian Gordon
USA TODAY NETWORK
After exhausting their vaccine supplies and receiving few, if any, new doses from the state, many local health departments and hospitals in North Carolina are struggling this week to administer COVID-19 vaccines.
Some have been forced to cancel scheduled vaccination appointments, a move health officials fear could further erode public confidence in a vaccine rollout already marked by delays and uncertainties.
“It undermines their trust in us locally, and that is probably the biggest loss of all of this,” Onslow County Health Director Kristen Richmond-Hoover said. She estimated her department has canceled or rescheduled around 1,600 appointments after Onslow County received fewer-than-expected doses this week from the state health department.
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Materials for conducting a sexual assault examination are prepared for the next rape survivor at the Solace Center in Raleigh.
Editor’s note: This article is Part 2 of a two-part investigative series.
For years, if sexual assault survivors in Cumberland County sought care, they could count on going to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville, where the hospital’s highly trained and certified sexual assault nurse examiners would provide treatment and gather the forensic evidence needed for law enforcement to build a criminal case against their attacker.
About a year ago, advocates for sexual assault survivors noticed a staffing change, said Deanne Gerdes, executive director of Rape Crisis of Cumberland County.