WILMINGTON – Wilmington police say a shooting in December was accidental.
Through the investigation, detectives revealed the victim of the shooting, Nasir Leonard, 20, was sitting in the passenger’s seat of a parked vehicle with two others when another car drove by and fired shots.
In an attempt to return fire, a man in the backseat of the vehicle Leonard was in struck him.
According to a Wilmington Police Department news release, “Since the shooter was acting in self-defense and did not intend to hit Leonard, the District Attorney’s Office has declined prosecution; however, charges are still possible in this case.”
Note: This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
NEW HANOVER COUNTY North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein will not object to Novant Health’s $1.5 billion purchase of the publicly owned New Hanover Regional Medical Center.
After a three-month legally required review of the proposed asset purchase agreement and the addition of certain new negotiated conditions, Stein announced Thursday the parties have agreed to increase the transparency of the endowment bestowed with $1.25 billion in sale proceeds.
The endowment’s “representativeness” and independence of its board of directors has also been improved, according to Stein’s announcement.
Get Fit with 6: Small changes that go beyond exercise
Get Fit with 6: Small changes that go beyond exercise By Kim Ratcliff | January 21, 2021 at 9:24 AM EST - Updated January 21 at 9:25 AM
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Getting fit doesn’t necessarily mean you have to spend hours a day in the gym running on a treadmill or lifting weights.
For a program to work for you and last you really need to look closely at your habits.
“Becoming aware of what you eat, how you eat, how you move each day, do you have less sedentary time,” said Holly Konrady, Stress Management, Intense Cardiac Rehab, New Hanover Regional Medical Center.
On Oct. 5, the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners came to a 4-1 decision to approve the sale of of the hospital to Novant Health, a North Carolina not-for-profit health system based in Winston-Salem, for $1.5 billion after a year of deliberation.
Several concerns were raised by residents surrounding the sale of the hospital. Stein said one of the recurring community concerns he came across was about the endowment transparency.
“I took those concerns to heart, and as a result, there will be two New Hanover public listening sessions held every year to address the board,” Stein said.
Novant and New Hanover agreed to increase the new endowment’s transparency, its accountability to the public, and the representativeness and independence of its board of directors, according to the Attorney General’s office.