Lives in roseville. Ken smith is live with how the city is honoring him. He was just 30 years old, stationed at fort carson, colorado, and this was his first tour of duty in afghanistan. He was a highly decorated soldier with more than eight years serving his country. Reporter the family lives in roseville, and this womans tears are for all the soldiers families currently grieving. All the soldiers are our family, and they need to be remembered and honored. Reporter the town is honoring the captains memory and military service. The flags at town hall flying at half staff, and at the Veterans Memorial. Sizable demographic of veterans, and the military means a lot, and for someone this young to pass away is shocking. Reporter his duty station in fort carson, colorado, issued a statement reading in part its always hashed to lose a part hard to lose a part of our military family. Our thoughts are with his family and friends during this difficult time. Theyre sure he served with honor. Its
Not really. Eyewitness news. Protests in the triangle transform into arrests. What theyre demanding and what landed them behind bars. Death and destruction. The raging wildfires torching a popular tourist destination. Blue cross blue shield nc takes steps to make some customers think twice before heading to the emergency room. Eyewitness news starts right now. breaking news center with a ruling on legislative maps that is shaking things up in north carolinas political scene. Just a couple of hours ago federal judges ordered our state to redraw those controversial state election maps. And heres the kicker every Single Member of the General Assembly just elected to office earlier this month thier terms were just shortened to one year meaning theyll be up for reelection not in two years panel is giving our state legislators until march to re draw the maps. If lawmakers are unable to do so the federal judges say the court may. The architects of the maps representative david lewis and senat
Information received so far if they were inside or outside the hotel. This is an ongoing investigation. The ccbi is here looking into the incident. The area remains blocked off into the investigation as police are still working to gather information about what happened. There are guests inside of the hotel. I did see a couple of them looking through the windows train to figure out what is going on with a couple people moved on. There are two neighboring hotels and i spoke with the general manager of the hilton and the Hampton Hotel who says he will be taking a closer look to see what he may find as well. There are a lot of people looking into this situation. Once we can gather more information, we will give it to you. A suspect shot and wounded by Raleigh Police remains in Critical Condition at wakemed. Yearold medukay who was forced out of the condos in october for not paying rent. Last august he served 30 days in jail for stabbing his brother with a steak knife. He got into a struggl
Going through them. In many ways, it was less about the actual sound and more about people in the crowd yelling to one another that someone with a gun was in the mall. Now, witnesses say it was chaos as thousands of people ran for their lives and tried to get out of the building at the same time. Others hid in the back of stores and storage rooms and bathrooms until police let them know it was safe to come out. Were in the Crabtree Valley there was lots of bangs and shootings somewhere downstairs. Did you see anybody . No, didnt see anybody but everybody is running. Has somebody been shot . I dont know. Reporter because Raleigh Police still do not know the origin of that sound that a lot of shoppers identified as a gunshot, they have asked the fbi lab to analyze video with the sound in the background to see if they can figure it out. We have a team of people continuing to pore over these calls and we will have more in wral. Com. Back to you. Thank you. Contradicting reports from the sw
Get many details about the investigation. Here what is we have learned about him and the charges against him. According to court records, he is charged for multiple counts of statutory rape. This happened between 2007 and 2012. The victims said to be teenagers, 13 years of age to on the schools web site, stevens bio says he worked as a special ed teacher at wake county Public Schools in the 1908s. We checked with the school sam and they said they have no records indicating his employment. Now, investigators made it very clear to us they want the public to know that, if anyone has any information, they want them to come forward, something we often hear from investigators when they believe connection yet so very few details coming out. We doe no that stevens walked away with from that courtroom way 5 million bond. He is expected back in court next month. Thank you. The cdc expanded its travel warning for pregnant women today to include miami beach. South beach has been identified as a se