The Hickory Public Schools Board of Education approved an Eagle Scout project, discussed summer school plans and said farewell to an administrator during its regular meeting Tuesday.
From staff reports
The team at Hickory Public Schools isnât waiting until school is out for the summer. The school district is already immersed in a campaign to capture the attention of families, reminding everyone that the fall semester begins for students Aug. 23.
Over the past year, with the cloud of COVID-19 limiting in-person learning, the district has shifted the sails to a positive direction, navigating forward. The HPS teachers, staff and administrators are steering toward an exciting return to school.
âGranted, we are just wrapping up the 2020-2021 school year with our last day and graduation ceremonies scheduled for this Friday, May 28, and our HPS Summer Learning Program is starting soon; but Iâve heard teachers, staff, and even students share their enthusiasm for the return to normal for the new school year,â said Beverly Snowden, HPS director of communications.
The shooting happened late on Wednesday night in Hickory, North Carolina
Seven-year-old Zakylen Greylen Harris was killed after being shot in the neck
The incident is being investigated as a possible road rage incident
Zakylen s two younger brothers, who were in the car, were not injured
Douglas Mason Wilson, 23, is charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond following his arrest on Thursday night
Hickory Police are asking for help in finding the people who shot and killed a 7-year-old boy on Tate Boulevard Wednesday night.
Hickory police held press conference on a shooting from Wednesday night that claimed the life of a 7-year-old boy.
Zakylen Greylen Harris died from a gunshot wound to the neck, according to a press release issued by Hickory police. He was a passenger in a vehicle driven by his mother on one of Hickoryâs main thoroughfares.
âItâs tough. We are here to ask for your help. We need your help. Someone out there knows what happened and we are asking anyone with any information to contact us,â Hickory Police Chief Thurman Whisnant said. âThis was a senseless act of violence ⦠The men and women of the Hickory Police Department will act tirelessly to see justice is brought to the coward that did this.â
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