CRIME & SAFETY
Crew battling housefire in Greenville
PITT COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - Fire crews are battling a blaze at one Eastern Carolina home Sunday. A house on Leon Drive outside of Greenville caught fire. A ladder truck is helping attack the blaze. WITN is following the story and will have updates as more information becomes available.
Pedestrian badly hurt in hit-and-run on east side of city
Police are asking for the public’s help finding a motorist who fled the U.S. 64 interchange for East Raleigh Boulevard in the eastern part of the city after striking a pedestrian late Saturday night. Officers at 11:05 p.m. responded to the scene of the hit-and-run. The pedestrian was taken to ECU Health Medical Center in Greenville with life-threatening injuries, police said. An investigation is continuing. Police said that anyone with any information about the incident is encouraged to call the police department at (252) 972-1411 or Crime Stoppers at (252) 977-1111. Tips can be texted to police at 274637 by beginning messages with RMPOL to direct the tip to the police department, and messages can be sent to police via the MyRMT mobile app.
Destructive fire collapses roof of Pitt County home
Greenville, PITT COUNTY — Fire crew confirmed a house on Leon Drive in Greenville caught fire around 11:30 a.m., leading to significant damage. Firefighters battled the fire for about an hour and a half before gaining control. Authorities said the man who lived there alone escaped unharmed. He was...
Police say man trying to avoid animal runs off road and hits pedestrian
KINSTON, N.C. (WITN) - A driver is facing several charges after police say he swerved to avoid an animal and ended up hitting a man walking along side the road. Kinston police say it happened around 11:15 p.m. Sunday on Tower Hill Road. Police say Anthony Belcher ran off the...
Murder, accessory charges filed against Walstonburg man
Charges against a Walstonburg man arrested in an April 15 shooting death on Third Street in west Greenville include murder and accessory after the fact, according to jail records. Zy’quan Malik Johnson, 21, 93 Jamal Sarsour St., was arrested in Rocky Mount the next night with the assistance of the Rocky Mount Police Department, the Greenville Police Department said. He was detained in the Edgecombe County Jail and later booked...
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