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the year.
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Trio charged in abuse cases
Those arrested were staff members at Williamston rehab center
SARAH HODGES STALLS
Enterprise & Weekly Herald
WILLIAMSTON - Three people
have been charged in two
separate incidents at a local
rehabilitation and nursing
care facility.
During the month of Novem
ber, police were called to Roa
noke River Rehabilitation and
Nursing Center, located at 119
Gatling St. Both calls were in
reference to patients who had
reportedly been assaulted.
According to Detective Lt.
Gene Biggs, police arrived on
Nov. 5 and were “informed a
staff member had reportedly
struck a resident in the face.”
The investigation led police
to Clara Hyman Hill, 60, of
102 West Robin Lane in Wind
sor, who was identified as the
staff member who reportedly
struck a patient.
Hill was charged with felony
patient abuse.
Biggs stated in a press re
lease, police determined an
other staff member, Brenda
Askew, 50, of 433 West Hwy.
13/17 in Windsor, had assisted
Hill in “avoiding prosecution”
See ABUSE, A5
EASTERN CAROLINA’S UNSOLVED CASES
Heartbroken without answers
SARAH HODGES STALLS
Enterprise & Weekly Herald
WILLIAMSTON - There
is only one thing Nancy
and Carmichael Sim
mons truly want for
Christmas this year -
answers regarding their
son’s murder.
The murder of Ta-
fari Griffin has haunted
their family and local
law enforcement for
more than a year.
“It just hurts,” Nancy
Simmons said. “Some
times I still think this is
a dream.”
This family’s night-.
mare began on April
28, 2018 when her son
did not make his regu-
iar weekend delivery to
her house.
“Every Saturday morn
ing he was at my house
between 7:30 a.m. and
8 a.m. to bring me hot-
cakes and sausage,”
Simmons explained.
That Saturday morn
ing came - and no Ta-
fari.
As the morning con
tinued with no sign of
her son, Simmons and
one of her daughters
Memories and photographs are all Nancy Simmons has left
of her late son, Tafari Griffin. Today she still holds on to hope
SARAH HODGES STALLS / Enterprise & Weekly Herald
the people responsible for her son’s murder will be brought
to justice.
rode out to his house.
Griffin lived on Hargis
Lane near Bear Grass.
His mother called him
a “private person” who
had been living in this
secluded neighborhood
less than a year.
“Not too many people
even knew where he
stayed,” she added.
When they arrived.
law enforcement offi
cers blocked the road-
See HEARTBROKEN, A5
Williamston PD thankful for support
Maiden voyage
of No-Shave
November a
success
SARAH HODGES STALLS
Enterprise & Weekly Herald
WILLIAMSTON - The William
ston Police Department’s
maiden voyage with No-Shave
November is in the books and
on all accounts - it was a suc
cess.
. Officers put down their ra
zors for the month to honor
one of their own - Lt. Tony Bo
wen, who lost his battle with
cancer a year ago.
The other half of the mission
was to raise awareness - that
is if they raised a minimum of
SARAH HODGES STALLS / Enterprise & Weekly Herald
Sgt. Henry Poston was the top money raiser of WPD’s inaugural No-Shave
November Campaign. Poston reportedly raised nearly a quarter of the total
on his own.
one dollar a day to sponsor their beard.
Members of Bowen’s law
enforcement family let their
beards grow to initiate con
versations on men’s health - a
goal they knew would honor
Bowen’s battle and raise
funds for those still fighting
the disease.
“We are so appreciative of
the support from the com
munity in our fundraising ef
forts,” explained Chief Travis
Cowan. “We raised a total of
$5,120.10, far surpassing our
original goal.”
When the idea first came
about, the department hoped
to raise $1,000.
“The funds raised have al
ready been sent to the Ameri
can Cancer Society’s Hope
Lodge in Greenville,” Cowan
said.
Hope Lodge offers cancer
See NO SHAVE, A5
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