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Fire & Police Briefs: Man killed when car hits house
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Published: June 16, 2009
THOMASVILLE -- A man was killed when the car he was driving hit a house off Lake Road early Sunday morning, police said today.
Daniel Lee Rickard, 21, of Black Lake Road, Thomasville, died in the wreck, which occurred about 3:25. No one else was injured.
The Thomasville Police Department is investigating.
Police look for two men who robbed two stores
Winston-Salem police are looking for suspects in the armed robberies of two convenience stores Sunday.
Shortly before 5:30 p.m. a man wearing a woman's wig went into Huff's convenience store on Broad Street. Employees told police that the man had a handgun, demanded money and then ran from the store. They said he was wearing a red and black shoulder-length wig. He was described as a black man between the ages of 20 and 30, weighing 150 to 170 pounds and wearing a white tee shirt and blue jeans.
At 10:13 p.m. employees at Chief's Pick-A-Pack on Linville Road reported that a man came into the store, held a handgun and demanded money. He ran from the store with an undisclosed amount of cash.
The suspect was described as a black man in his mid-20s, between 5 feet 5 inches and 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing between 125 and 150 pounds. He was wearing a blue-and-red ball cap with a white "A" on the front, a black short-sleeved tee shirt, black jeans with a white or gray design on the pocket area and dark-colored shoes.
People with any information about the robberies are asked to call the Winston-Salem police or Crime Stoppers at 727-2800.
Western N.C. woman attacked by bear at home
BLACK MOUNTAIN -- A Western North Carolina woman has been treated and released after being attacked in her driveway by a black bear.
Buncombe County emergency officials said that the woman was attacked Sunday night at her home.
A spokesman at Mission Hospital in Asheville said the woman was treated and released.
The woman's name wasn't released.
Car jumps railroad tracks, hits, kills two motorcyclists
PEMBROKE -- A woman driving a car faster than 100 mph jumped railroad tracks in a North Carolina town and slammed into two motorcycles, killing two of the bikers and injuring a third rider, police said.
Police Chief Dwayne Hunt said that the driver of the car never braked late Friday as she sped into the town of Pembroke in a four-door Saturn and lost control.
The motorcycles were hit as they turned into a gas station lot with other riders. Hunt said that 16 people saw the crash.
Virginia C. Locklear of Lumberton died instantly, Hunt said. She was a passenger on one bike and the driver was critically injured. Hunt said Marie D. Locklear of Pembroke was alone on the other bike and was killed.
Julie Miller, 40, of Mount Pleasant, S.C., was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of assault with a deadly weapon, the chief said. She was being held at the Robeson County Jail with bond set at $1.25 million.
Hunt said that Miller said she couldn't recall the crash and tested negative for alcohol and drugs. He said he would send a detective to South Carolina to try to determine why she was in the Robeson County town.
The Saturn came to a stop two blocks from the crash scene, and Hunt said that one motorcycle was cut in half.
"We had debris for two city blocks. Motorcycle parts," Hunt said.
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