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Fire & Police Briefs: Jogger relays report of rape; police ask for victim
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Published: August 11, 2009
Winston-Salem police are investigating a second sexual assault in the Bethabara Park area.
A person jogging on the trail behind the park on Saturday morning talked with a woman who said she had been raped. The jogger told the woman to wait, then left the area to call the police. By the time police arrived, the woman had left, police said.
The jogger told police that he saw a white Lexus leave the area shortly before he came upon the woman. That car matches the description of a car that was driven by a suspect in a sexual-assault case on May 3.
In that case, a woman told police that she met a man at a party and voluntarily went for a ride with him in his white Lexus. The man drove to Old Town Drive, which is near Bethabara Park, and sexually assaulted the woman, according to Capt. David Clayton.
The first woman provided a general description of the attacker and told police the man goes by the name "Wall."
After the second incident on Saturday, police used its K-9 unit to try to find the woman. Clayton said that police searched the area again yesterday. Clayton said that police believe the cases are related but need the woman in Saturday's incident to come forward.
Charlotte teenager dies in golf-cart accident at club
ROARING GAP -- A recent high-school graduate from Charlotte died in an accident involving a golf cart last week in Alleghany County, according to authorities.
Will Froelich, 17, died at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, a spokeswoman said.
Emergency personnel were dispatched at 5:34 p.m. Thursday to the 10th hole of the Roaring Gap Club in Alleghany County, according to 911 records. The Roaring Gap Club is a private mountain community.
A spokesman for the Alleghany County Sheriff's Office said that Froelich's death was accidental, and they would not release any more information at the request of the family.
Froelich was a member of the 2009 class of Charlotte Country Day School.
Van overturns, killing two; driver faces charges
DEEP GAP -- Two passengers died Sunday afternoon when the van they were riding in overturned, according to the N.C. Highway Patrol.
Antonio Jose Martinez, 27, and Marcial Jimenez Munoz, 40, both of Fleetwood, were thrown from the 1994 Dodge van and died, said a Highway Patrol spokeswoman.
The accident happened at 1 p.m. on Brownwood Road in Watauga County.
The driver, Jose Luis Reyes Valles, 24, of Fleetwood, has been charged with two counts of misdemeanor death by vehicle, according to a report by Trooper D.B. Searcy.
The report said that Valles was traveling south on Brownwood Road when he lost control of the van in a curve, went left of center, steered back right and went off the road, then came back on the road and overturned several times.
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