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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Police charge students in Halloween fight
Holmes suspends
haunted house attackers
By REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writer
Three John A. Holmes High
School students have been sus
pended and charged with assault
for an attack on Halloween night.
The students allegedly started a
brawl during the school’s second
annual Halloween haunted house
fundraiser. When JROTC students
working at the haunted house, held
at the old armory building, went
outside to check on an egg-throw
ing incident they were attacked and
physically beaten, according to po
lice and school officials.
According to Edenton Police
Chief Jay Fortehbery, the teens
Butterfield
to talk
economy,
jobs
From staff reports
Congressman G. K. But
terfield (D.-N.C.) will join
local and state elected of
ficials at a joint Rebuild
the American Dream and
Chowan Democratic Party
Town Hall today at 1 p.m. at
the Edenton-Chowan Pub
lic Library, 106 West Water
Street, Edenton, N.C.
The town hall meeting
will address many local,
state and national issues.
However, Butterfield will
focus his remarks on the
economy and job creation.
“The middle class is
shrinking and income in
equality is growing,” said
Butterfield in a press re
lease. “When you couple
that fact with the latest
unemployment rate, which
dropped to 9 percent, it
underscores the need for
job creation. Instead of
focusing on the next elec
tion, Democrats remain
committed proposing and
passing measures that will
get our economy back on
track.”
Suit to
block
maps
vowed
Feds will not object
to newNC districts
By GARY D. ROBERTSON
Associated Press
RALEIGH — North
Carolina’s journey to
ward new district bound
aries for the Legislature
and Congress is about to
detour into court, even
though federal attorneys
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All Rights Reserved
charged with simple assault are
Darian Copeland Jr., 16, of Twiddy
Avenue, and Kashese Bond, 17, of
North Broad Street. An unnamed
15-year-old has been charged as a
juvenile.
The mother of an injured stu
dent said she feels stiffer charges
are warranted. She also claims the
fight was gang-related, adding that
the suspects were wearing identical
clothing and bandanas.
“We aren’t ruling that out,”
Fortenbery said when asked wheth
er the incident was gang related.
Fortenbery added that because
the student who was beaten did
not suffer injuries such as cuts that
required stitching, and was not
held overnight at die hospital, his
injuries did not rise to the level of
a more serious charge such as as
sault with intent to injure, which is
First-Time Hunter
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Kathryn Green, 9, of Rockwell and guide Leon Nixon show off the third-grader’s first kill on her first hunt, following the
4th annual Hunters Helping Kids event jn Edenton. HHK invited Green to participate as a way for her to further adjust
to her right-eye blindness.
HHK invites visually impaired girl, 9
Third-grader
notches first hunt >
By RITCMIB K. STARNES
Editor
Blind in her right eye since
birth, her parents have be
gun to help their daughter
become better acclimated with
her physical challenge.
“She’s limited in her sports
a felony.
According to the injured student’s
mother, however, her son was beaten
so severely about the face and head
that he currently has no memory of
what happened during the assault.
She said he could remember be
ing at the haunted house and later
at the emergency room at Chowan
Hospital, but nothing in between.
“Does that sound like simple as
sault to you?” she asked. ,
The woman said her family has
contacted the district attorney’s of
fice to see if anything can be done
to upgrade the charges.
Fortenbery said he was unaware
of the student’s apparent amnesia.
“If the evidence shows it is war
ranted, we would certainly consider
upgrading*the charges,” he said.
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so we’re trying to find some
thing she can do,” said James
Green about his 9-year-old
daughter Kathryn. “We’re try
ing to let her spread her wings.”
Kathryn lost her vision due to
congenital glaucoma, a disease
that strikes one in 1 million
children, James said. The rare
disease narrowly claimed her
left eye, which would have left
the third-grader completely
SUBMITTED PHOTO
This photo shows facial injuries to a teen attacked outside a Haunted
House at John A. Holmes High School Halloween night. Authorities say
the attack may have been gang-related.
Kathryn became the excep
tion of the Albemarle’s 4th
annual Hunters Helping Kids
held Friday and Saturday in
Edenton. Typically, the event
is reserved at providing young
girls who have wounded fathers
who have served in the U.S.
military an opportunity to
experience the outdoors during
a deer hunting expedition. The
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Business
owners
buy Moore
building
Groups
outbids pastor
By RITCHIE E. STARNES _
Editor *\.
A group of local busi
nessmen are the new own
ers of the former George
C. Moore building after %
outbidding a church at
$250,000.
Previously listed at
$1.2 million, the 149,000
square-foot building and
near 25-acre site sold for a
fraction of its value during
Thursday’s owner ordered
auction. Doug Hollowell,
Bud Perry, and Charlie
Creighton outbidded Sha
lom International pastor
Jonthan Downing for the
site in an auction that took
less than one hour to com
plete.
Although the new owip
ers are not yet certain
about their plans, Downing
said her church had grand
plans for the site. <
“We wanted it for our
children - to get our kffls
off the street,” Downing
said. “We could have had'tt
all right here.” *,»
Downing went as high as
$245,000, but her reluctance
seemed to grow during the
later bids. Auctioneers
kept the pressure on as she
continued to bid.
Although she failed
short, Downing had a sup
portive cast watching.
Others on hand seemed
to admire her grit for at
tempting such a purchase.
Several observers on hand
approached her after the
bidding was over, includ
ing Dana Bowman, presi
dent and CEO of the Moore
Company, and Butch Mill
er, managing director of
CBRE in Raleigh who had
been trying to sell the in
dustrial facility.
“Obviously, it was impor
tant to her,” Miller said.
“This is a new chapter
for this building and the
town of Edenton,” he add
ed.
Bowman said he was
glad to see that a group
with local ties would con
trol the fate of the build
ing that housed the Moore
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