FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) Fayetteville police officers are investigating after a man was killed in a shooting overnight.
Officers received a call of shots fired just before 1 a.m. in the 200 block of Shads Ford Boulevard with multiple cars leaving the scene.
Upon arrival, officers determined several people had been shot. Albert Alexander Harris, 32, died at the scene. Another man sustained life-threatening injuries and is in critical condition at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center.
Three other shooting victims are being treated.
Homicide detectives are investigating.
Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to contact Detective Nevitt at (910) 703-3499 or Crimestoppers at (910) 483-TIPS (8477). Crimestoppers information can also be submitted electronically, by visiting http://fay-nccrimestoppers.org and completing the anonymous online tip sheet, or by downloading the FREE P3 Tips app available for Apple devices in the Apple App Store and available for Andr
A 19-year-old man is in critical condition after the car he was driving flipped several times and hit a tree, officials said.
Demaci Griffin, of the 200 block of Murray Fork Drive, was driving a 2008 Nissan Altima when it left the road and crashed, according to a statement released by the Fayetteville Police Department. He was taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center.
Police were sent to Cliffdale Road near Woodstream Trail just after 8:20 p.m. because of the crash, the statement said. Lanes of Cliffdale Road heading toward Fayetteville were closed until about midnight.
Anyone with information about the crash should contact Officer C. Biggerstaff at (910) 751-1382 or Crimestoppers at (910) 483-TIPS (8477).
Editor s note: This story has been updated to reflect George Douglas correct age.
A Fayetteville man was killed and a woman critically injured in a head-on collision Monday on Ramsey Street.
George Douglas, 69, of Andover Road, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 5:57 p.m. wreck near Currin Street.
According to State Highway Patrol Sgt. Kathryn McVicker, Douglas was southbound on Ramsey Street in a 2001 Ford pickup when his truck collided with a northbound 2013 Honda van driven by Shirley Barath, 36. Both vehicles were estimated to be traveling the speed limit of 55 mph, McVicker said.
Barath, of Whispering Pines Road, suffered serious injuries and was taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center.
Cliff Lovick doesn t remember much of what his teacher said in 10th-grade biology class at Cape Fear High School in 1973. After all, there were more important things to pay attention to, like Kay Adcox’s jet black ponytail.
As she sat in the desk in front of him, it hung down her back past her shoulders, tied up with a ribbon. As any high school boy with a crush would do, Lovick always untied the bow. Adcox always tied it back up over, and over, and over.
“I could tell you every move she made,” Lovick, now 64, said Thursday. “Not what the teacher was saying but every move that Kay was doing, yeah.
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The Jack Britt High School girls soccer team was playing on a muggy evening in Fayetteville, North Carolina, when the sky grew dark. It was on Sept. 30, 2015. Shana Williams Turner, a 46-year-old teacher in the school s special education department, was supervising at the gate that leads to the field. She watched as the weather started to turn.
Thunder rumbled above, each clap bringing lightning closer. When a bolt struck close by, the players and coaches were escorted inside by supervising staff. Shana kept guard outside, the heavy rain soaking her shoulder-length auburn hair, red trousers, and white shirt. After 30 minutes, the storm appeared to calm and the match resumed. Then, Shana saw another lightning bolt hit a grocery store across the street. Scared, she and the choir teacher, Richard Butler, ran to a nearby ticket booth to find shelter. With barely e