North Carolina Man Stabs Estranged Wife Over 15 Times, Throws Her Off Balcony
01/08/21 AT 8:31 AM
A man in North Carolina was charged with attempted murder after he stabbed his estranged wife several times before throwing her off the balcony.
On Wednesday night, Mathew Stallings of New Hanover County broke into his estranged wife’s apartment at the New Providence Park Apartment Homes while she was asleep. Stallings then woke her up and stabbed her 15 times before throwing her off the second-floor balcony.
The woman, identified as Elaine Kinn, dropped approximately 14 feet before hitting the ground.
Kinn suffered life-threatening injuries as five of the stab wounds were to her neck. She was rushed to the New Hanover Regional Medical Center. Kinn is currently reported to be in stable condition, the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office said, NBC-affiliated television station WECT reported.
By Staff Reports, posted Jan 8, 2021
This year is expected to include some of the same themes as 2020, from what will become of the countyâs proceeds from the sale of New Hanover Regional Medical Center to more COVID-19 news. While COVID-19’s impact on the economy will remain a focus this year, other expected newsmakers in 2021 include New Hanover Regional Medical Center, the film industry and the Port of Wilmington.
Big Picture
Although 2020 is in the rearview, its effects are expected to linger with the potential for even rockier economic times this year.
“I am optimistic that in 2021 our small businesses will begin to see more of a recovery beginning in the third quarter of 2021 if we can turn the tide of the pandemic with the vaccine and a comprehensive strategy to eliminate it,” said Jerry Coleman, director of the Small Business Center at Cape Fear Community College, in December. “The next several months, however, will
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A hospital bed sits in one of the tarp-enclosed rooms at North Carolina s field hospital in Lenoir. Each room will also have a heart monitor and other medical equipment.
North Carolina’s hospitals are quickly filling up with patients stricken by the coronavirus, even as health systems in some of the hardest-hit regions the Triad and greater Charlotte area take steps to make room for a wave of new patients.
The looming crisis is fueled by lack of clinical staff, not by lack of physical space for beds.
Health care workforce shortages have been chronic and persistent in some areas of the state, particularly rural ones. But with virtually every hospital in the state drawing on a finite pool of available providers, more than 4,000 North Carolina hospital beds are either unstaffed or were not reported to the state, data from the Department of Health and Human Services shows. COVID-19 infections in health care workers have also compounded the shortage.
By Christina Haley O Neal, posted Jan 6, 2021 Former state legislator Harper Peterson is circulating a petition and letter to the state attorney general’s office as the state agency continues its review of New Hanover Regional Medical Center s sale to Novant Health.
More than 410 people have signed the petition and added more than 110 comments as of Wednesday morning, said Peterson, the former District 9 state senator who sent out the petition and letter to Attorney General Josh Stein this week
“This response sends a clear message that the community is not in support of the actions being taken by the NHC Commission, NHRMC Board of Trustees and the newly formed New Hanover Community Endowment and their intentions to privately manage, invest and disperse $1.25 billion in public assets,” said Peterson in an email.
The Wilmington Police Department has arrested two men in connection to the fatal shooting of a 31-year-old man in October.
Hykeem Quintell Durant, 31, and Dashon Maroze Davis, 30, were arrested in Wilmington on Jan. 5 in connection the death of Charles Bernard Ross Jr. on Oct. 5, according to the Wilmington Police Department.
Both men have been charged with first degree murder and remain in jail without bond.
Around 6:25 a.m. on Oct. 5, police responded to the 4100 block of Princess Place Drive, where they found Ross suffering from life-threatening wounds. He was taken to New Hanover Regional Medical Center, where he died during surgery.