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Regional Briefs: Witness says she saw man fire into taxi
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Published: November 14, 2008
Testimony started yesterday in the trial of James Ray Little III, who is accused of killing cab driver Bira Gueye in 2006.
Little, 22, faces the possibility of the death penalty.
Gueye, 47, a driver for Willard Cab Co., was dispatched to northeastern Winston-Salem on the morning of Oct. 5, 2006. He was shot and robbed on Patrick Street.
Yvette Reaves, a witness to the shooting, testified in Forsyth Superior Court that she saw a man step out of the cab from the seat behind the driver and fire into the car.
Police officers and the medical examiner are expected to testify today. The trial is expected to run into next week.
Jewelry taken in drug raids sells below appraisal at auction
RALEIGH -- Someone got a deal on a diamond-studded gold gorilla.
The oddly shaped pendant was among hundreds of pieces of jewelry -- all seized during drug busts -- up for auction yesterday at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. And the deals abounded.
Appraised for $21,600, the gorilla sold for only $3,800. A diamond-encrusted men's Breitling 1884 chronometre watch valued at $38,000 sold for $8,000, while a heavy gold curb-link chain appraised at more than $32,000 went for $10,500.
In fact, all the big-ticket items on the auction block sold for less than a third of their appraisal values, said Jill Warren Lucas, a spokeswoman for the N.C. Department of Revenue.
The items were seized during the past year by the department's Unauthorized Substance Tax Division.
The auction raised about $108,000 after attracting about 200 registered bidders, with 67 individual bidders making purchases. Three-quarters of the profits will go to law-enforcement agencies responsible for the arrests. The rest will go to the state's general fund.
Spanish Old Masters exhibit fails to pay the bill at museum
DURHAM -- One of the biggest exhibitions presented at Duke University's new art museum failed to draw the crowds and money it expected.
The Nasher Museum of Art held a show this year of works by El Greco and other Spanish Old Masters.
The university said that it was one of the most important shows of its kind ever presented in the Southeast. The works date to the early 1600s, when Spain's empire was at its peak.
The Durham Herald-Sun reported yesterday that the exhibit drew about 73,000 visitors before it ended Sunday. The Nasher hoped for 100,000 visitors.
Ticket sales brought $462,000, well short of the exhibit's $2 million cost.
Elementary school resumes a day after body was found
WILMINGTON -- Students returned to a Wilmington elementary school a day after the body of a teen was found in front of the building.
The Wilmington Star-News reported that a staff member found the body just minutes before students began arriving Wednesday at Snipes Academy of Arts and Design. Principal Allison Ward said that buses were sent away and parents were kept from turning into the school driveway.
Authorities identified the body as Daryon Terrell Walker, 19. Police said yesterday that he was killed by a single gunshot to the back of his head.
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