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Motorcyclist badly injured in collision
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Published: July 3, 2009
A Winston-Salem man was critically injured late Wednesday when he ran his motorcycle into another motorcyclist who was stopped and preparing to make a turn.
Police said that Leslie Robert Kirk, 57, was traveling eastbound on Clemmonsville Road just before midnight when he hit another rider who had stopped to make a turn onto Peters Creek Parkway.
Kirk was taken to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, where he was in critical condition last night.
The driver of the other motorcycle, Donald Hawkins of Clemmons, and his passenger, Kelly Hawkins of Clemmons, were not injured, police said.
Denton man, 19, is killed in single-vehicle wreck
DENTON -- A 19-year-old man was killed Wednesday night when the car he was driving went off the road and hit a tree, the N.C. Highway Patrol said yesterday.
Kenneth McDonald of 6544 N.C. 47 in Denton was driving a Honda sedan east on Lick Creek Road just before 7 when the car crossed the centerline and went out of control. The car went off the road to the right and struck a cedar tree and a mailbox, the highway patrol said.
A passenger, Humphrey Morgan, 18, was injured and taken to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. He was in critical condition last night, a hospital spokeswoman said.
McDonald was taken to Lexington Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The highway patrol said that the speed limit on Lick Creek Road is 55 mph and that the car was going 75 mph at the time of the wreck. No drugs or alcohol was involved, the highway patrol said.
Man surrenders in standoff in which shots are fired
MADISON -- Rockingham County sheriff's deputies arrested a man who fired at least 30 shots at them from inside his home during a 90-minute standoff Wednesday night.
Gerry Bullins, 30, became irate during an argument with family members Wednesday night and began firing shots from a .22-caliber rifle, deputies said. The family left the home to call officers, who arrived to find Bullins still upset, firing shots indiscriminately at deputies surrounding the property.
Bullins surrendered to deputies and was taken to a hospital.
No one was hurt, Rockingham County officials said.
Durham man in jail, charged in shooting of police officer
DURHAM -- A man was arrested yesterday and charged in connection with the shooting of a Durham police officer.
Thomas Rashawn Monroe, 23, of Durham was charged with assault on a law-enforcement officer with a firearm and is in custody at the Durham County Jail with bond set at $250,000, authorities said.
The 32-year-old officer, D.J. Youmans, was in stable condition after being shot while responding to a report of a burglary in progress in Durham.
The Durham Police Department said that Youmans was being treated at Duke University Hospital. The shooting occurred about 4 a.m. yesterday at an apartment complex.
Police said that the bullet that hit Youmans in the abdomen was fired from inside an apartment.
Youmans has been on the Durham force since May 26 and formerly worked for the New York City Police Department.
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