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Fire & Police Briefs: Brink's guard shot, killed Monday was a resident of Charlotte area
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Published: December 17, 2008
GREENSBORO -- Police identified the Brink's guard who was shot and killed Monday during a robbery at the Friendly shopping center as Juan Estevan Salado. He lived in the Charlotte area.
Salado, 25, was with another Brink's employee when a man approached their armored truck after it stopped in front of the Old Navy Store about 10 a.m.
Police said that man shot Salado, stole two bags that police believe were filled with money and ran toward a black car. The car then left the scene.
Salado was taken to Moses Cone Hospital, where he later died.
Lt. Hope Newkirk of the Greensboro Police Department said yesterday that no arrest has been made, and there are no leads.
The gunman is described as a black male, 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall, and with a dark complexion. He was last seen wearing a shoulder-length dark red wig, teal colored surgical pants, a short sleeved white print surgical top with a long-sleeve white shirt underneath and white tennis shoes.
Anyone with information about the robbery can call Crime Stoppers at 373-1000.
Highway patrol investigating hit and run on Interstate 77
DOBSON -- The N.C. Highway Patrol continues to investigate an accident that occurred Saturday along Interstate 77 north of Dobson in which a 26-year-old Wilkes County woman hit an embankment, got out of her car and was hit by another vehicle, authorities said.
Kayla Renee Rogers of 8604 Austin Traphill Road in Traphill was traveling south at about 11:15 p.m. when she drove off the right side of the road, overcorrected and then drove off the left side of the road and hit an embankment.
She may have been "dazed and didn't know what she was doing," said Trooper H.A. Hiatt, of the N.C. Highway Patrol. "She got out of her car and somehow ended up in the left hand lane of southbound I-77."
Another vehicle hit Rogers, severed her right leg and mangled her left leg, Hiatt said.
Rogers was listed in critical condition yesterday at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
The other vehicle involved has not been found. The accident occurred in a dark section of the interstate, Hiatt said.
It is possible that someone thought they'd struck an animal, he said. "However, I feel confident once they looked at their vehicle, they would see that they hit somebody."
Anyone with information about the vehicle is asked to call 336-835-5121.
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