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Shooting Victim Not Giving Up On Dream
Reginald Leroy Gandy
By SABRINA JONES
Chronicle Staff Intern
Reginald Lcroy Gandy is a true fighter.
While a linebacker at Parkland High
School, he fought off opposing blockers to
tackle running backs and quarterbacks.
Now he's faced with another battle.
Gandy, 19, is fighting to recover from a
gunshot wound to the head he suffered last
week after two men robbed him outside his
home.
Gandy was returning home from a bas
ketball game late Friday night and didn't pay
much attention to a car he saw following
him. After he drove a friend home, Gandy
parked his car at his house on. Harvard Road
and saw two men stooping behind it.
44I thought they were hiding from some
LIVING WITH AIDS
one up the street." he said. grazed me."
Gandy noticed the men as he walked Gandy was shot with a small-caliber
down his neighbor's driveway. They then handgun about 1 1:52 p.m. The bullet entered
stood up and demanded him to lie down on his head just in front of his left ear, striking
"If you can't stand in your own yard without being shot
at, I don't know where you can," victim's grandmother
said.
the ground while they took off his gold ring
and chain. One of the men put a gun to
Gandy's head and pulled the trigger.
"When they shot me I didn't think I was
shot." Gandy said. "I thought the bullet just
and shattering his right cheek bone. The bul
let is still lodged in his cheek bone.
The suspects, who wore masks and
hoods, took off running after the shooting.
No arrests have been made.
After being hospitalized for a few days ?
at Baptist Hospital, Gandy is now resting at
home. The front room of the quaint house in
South Winston off Clemmonsville Road is
decorated with brightly colored balloons
bearing the condoling messages of "Get
Well Soon."
Gandy was an all-conference linebacker
at Parkland and planned to play football at
Elizabeth City State University next year.
Gandy' s room contains several awards of
athletic recognition, such as the Coaches
Award trophy he received from Parkland in
1992, the year he graduated. He said his doc
tors are still uncertain if he will be able to
play sports again.
Those who know him cannot believe
see SHOOTING page A2
Victim Says' It Ain't No Play Thing'
By DAVID L. DILLARD
Chronicle Staff Writer _
Preston Davis used to be more sociable in his neighborhood.
But for more than the past year, he has created a shell for him
self.
He lives inside of it.
Davis created that shell shortly after July 1992. That was
when he was diagnosed lis being HIV-positive ? carrying the
virus that causes AIDS.
Davis, 26, does not have AIDS, but he chooses to live in
seclusion from everyone except his immediate family.
"It has changed my life a whole lot." a solemn Davis said in
a recent interview. "People I used to hang out with, I don't hang
out with no more. ! don't have a social life anymore."
Davis said he contracted the virus through unprotected sex.
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? Symptoms: Takes on average 10 years for HIV virus to develop into
AIDS. Attacks immune system, exposing victim* to illnesses. No cure.
? TrmanWoa: Homosexual and heterosexual intercourse, contami
nated blood and from mother to child.
? Total cases: 700.000- plus. True total nearer 2.5 million worldwide.
? Total HTV infections: More than 13 million adults: I million children.
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? North Amcrfca: Between I and 1.5 million estimated. Biggest killer
of American men aged 25 to 44. but spreading rapidly among women.
? Sontfi America and Caribbean: 1.5 million.
? Sob-Sahara* Africa: 8 million.
? Mideast and North Africa: 75.000.
? Sonth and Southeast Asia: 1.5 million, mainly Thailand and India.
? Western Europe: 500.000. Spreading across heterosexual population.
? r?Uin Europe and former Soviet Union: 50.000. Increased prosti
tution and drug use after collapse of Communism will lead to increase.
Source: World Health Organization
He keeps busy by gardening, fishing and volunteering his ser
vices to the AIDS Taskforce.
"I just want to help out," he said. "People need to know it's
here and it ain't no play thing."
ft VICTIM page A3
Marilyn Stafford of the AIDS Task Force chats with a client
about the dangers of the AIDS virus.
Ahmad Powell of East FortWk*
(top) drives against Dudley's
Derick Thompson in first-round
action df the LiikktChrohicI*
Junior Vtnitf Basketball To**
nament at C&rHP tttgh School,
At right, former CftTrtr Athletic
Dlrtttot David Lath takes in
action. (SH stories on page HI) '
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Supporters Rally For Womble in Run for House
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By MARK R. MOSS
Chronicle Staff Writer
It was obvious from the number of
African-American power brokers at
Larry Womble's side last week, that they
supported the former alderman's candi
dacy for the N.C. General Assembly seat
of retiring Annie Brown Kennedy.
Xnd some of those same supporters
say that Womble shouldn't change his
somewhat aggressive, sometimes contro
versial style to accommfcaate a larger
constituency.
Womble announced at a news con
ference Friday that he was going to run
for the 66th District seat that Kennedy
will relinquish after her term expires at
the end of 1994. Kennedy, who has held
the seat for five terms, announced to the
Chronicle last week that she will not
seek re-election when her term expires.
Womble. who also retired Friday
from his position of assistant principal at
Paisley Middle School, was aefeated in/
his re-election bid for alderman of the
Southeast Ward. Womble, the first
African-American alderman to preside
over a predominantly white ward, lost to
Robert Nordlander Jr., a 22-year-old
white Republican.
"As I announce my candidacy for
state House," Womble said at the news
conference, "I would also like to
acknowledge my retirement from the
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school
s>4tCTn. After mdfe thaif 30 years of ser
vice, I feel grateful to have had the
opportunity to serve in a career (educa
tion) that is so vital to a community. ... I
am now free to give full time of myself
to the citizens of Forsyth County in rep
resenting them in an elected position."
Larry Little, a lawyer and former
alderman who teaches at Winston-Salem
State University, will manage Womble's
see SUPPORTEfeS page AS
? Led effort to establish |he citizen's police review board
? Re-elected alderman four consecutive times
? Responsible for creating separate police and fire departments
? Helped create the Buy-Rehab Housing Program
? Founding member and former president of die N.C Black
Elected Municipal Officials
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? Indicted on bribery charges
? Created All-America City controversy when clandestinely
written letter is exposed
? Uses city secretary for personal business
? Accused of placing job ambitions ahead of constituents
? Loses fifth re-election bid to ?2-year-okl political neophyte'
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Community Nfws A4
Edttoriais A12
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Religion A9
Sports B 1
77m Week Is Black History
On Dn 2.1 Jupiter Hanmtan. a New York slave w ho was probably
' the first Noel poet, published An Evening Thought. Salvation by
; C hrist . m -it It Peneten tial Cries.
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Black Asst. Top Contender for School Head
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By DAVID L. DILLARD W ~ $ (J/) Y Q-S) / C k
Chronicle Staff Writer
Larry Coble said he has had enough!
The superintendent of the city/county school sys
tem abruptly announced his decision to resign from his
post last week, and an African American has emerged
as a possible candidate for the interim position.
Joseph Johnson, the only African-American asso
ciate superintendent, worked with Coble previously at
the Rocky Mount school system.
ou/fcfs Punger, attorne/' for the city/county
school system, said the three associate superintendents
are possible choices to lead during the interim period.
Previously, Johnson was one of two finalists for
the superintendent position for the New Hanover
County school system ? a position he said he was
denied because of race.
"As far as I know (Johnson s) qualified." said
Geneva Brown, one of two blacks on the school board.
"People need to look at ability and what they can do
intead of color or party, but we live in that kind of
world." '
Coble said he left the school system to pursue
something new and because of stress related to partisan
politics of school board members.
"I have the opportunity to deal with (educational)
problems at a different level," Coble said. "The stress
eventually catches up with you. . .
Brown said she felt that bickering among board
members played a part in Coble s decision to resign.
see BLACKS page A2
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