From left to right, Dameon Shepard, his mother Monica Shepard, and their attorney Jim Lea. (Mark Darrough/Port City Daily)
PENDER COUNTY — As part of our countdown to 2021, Port City Daily is revisiting some of its biggest stories of 2020.
Coming in second is coverage of an armed “vigilante mob” that threatened a Laney High School senior in his home in a case of mistaken identity.
The story hit national headlines from every major U.S. news outlet, likely due to its racial components (which occurred weeks before George Floyd’s death).
One of the men in the group was armed, wearing a New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office uniform.