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6 days ago · CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WJZY) – DNA from a decades-old marijuana joint helped detectives solve a hit-and-run cold case that killed a North Carolina woman 34 years ago, police announced Friday. The crash...
Aug 22, 2024 · The State announced on Thursday that it will not seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a Charlotte mother and her two children.
Aug 22, 2024 · Thursday, a member of the Kingdom Hall congregation took the stand in the case, along with a paramedic that responded to the scene and a crime scene investigator, who testified to what they saw the day of Brittni Ward’s death. Derek Ward is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape.
Aug 22, 2024 · Thirty-four-year old Benjamin Taylor was arrested two weeks later in California, near the Mexico border. He is charged with the murder of Johnson and her kids, as well as concealing/failure to report a death. Johnson was reported missing March 8 and was believed to have been dating Taylor.
Aug 22, 2024 · Officers arrested 53-year-old Sam Roary on Sunday and charged him with first-degree murder. ... CHARLOTTE, N.C. ... guilty to second-degree murder in 1989 and served six years of a 15-year sentence.
Aug 23, 2024 · Detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Major Crash Investigation Unit have identified and charged a suspect in a 34-year-old fatal hit and run cold case.
Aug 25, 2024 · Days after her murder, the man police say killed her moved in. He took Brittini’s twin bed, where on May 5, 2010, she lay stiffly with bloody sheets and a bruised neck and filled her dresser and closet with his clothes. Brittini’s mother and siblings, revealed new details in her murder while testifying in Derek Ward’s Charlotte trial ...
