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Sand in the Streets begins with The Monitors

Lenoir baseball, softball Graduates of new teams on the pursuit of college take their regional championships first step forward
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Reese Hawkins

Former UNC, Kinston High defensive back Hawkins arrested in May 3 shotgun shooting
By WESLEY BROWN
Staff Writer

cured bond for a felony charge of discharging a weapon into an occupied dwelling. Christopher Hawkins fall from Investigators with the Kinston Degrace steepened Wednesday when partment of Public Safety arrested Kinston police added two Hawkins at 11:46 a.m. new criminal charges to within feet of the 708 the laundry list of indict- Anyone with information on Doctors Drive home of the location of Courtney Olds 29-year-old Courtney ments the former local is asked to contact the Kinfootball star accumulatOlds. ed following his days as a ston Department of Public Detectives believe Olds Safety through its main line defensive back for UNC who remains on the and Kinston High School. at 252-939-3160, its tips line lam, also charged with a Hawkins, 29, will make at 252-939-4020 or anonyfelony count of dischargmously by email at tips@ his first appearance being a weapon into an ocfore a district court judge ci.kinston.nc.us. cupied dwelling conthis morning around 10 spired with Hawkins a.m., roughly 18 hours after deputies on May 3 to shoot a shotgun shell finished booking him into the Lenoir See Hawkins Page 2 County Jail under a $35,000 se-

Christopher Hawkins, a former UNC football player who made national headlines for an improper benefits scandal at the Chapel Hill university, now faces criminal charges for allegedly firing a shotgun cartridge into a home at 2323 Briarfield Road in Kinston on May 3. Here is the timeline of events surrounding the crime, according to three separate incident reports filed by the Kinston Department of Public Safety: Hawkins arrives at 2323 Briarfield Road and asks for a man by the name of Tyrell. A woman at the home turns him away Hawkins drives back by the house and fires a shotgun cartridge in the single-story homes front window. A resident of the home,

Anthony Derell Reese, indentified as an acquaintance of Hawkins, chases Hawkins Reese and Hawkins exchange gunfire at each others cars, while following one another on Roseanne Drive Reese runs a stop and crashes into a car driven by a 56-year-old woman, sending her to the hospital. Reese walks away Kinston police issue a warrant for Reeses arrest for a felony charge of hit and run Reese turns himself in at the Kinston Department of Public Safety Hawkins is arrested near 710 Doctors Drive

Hawkins bumpy road is now a little bumpier

By JUSTIN HILL
Staff Writer

In August 2000, Chris Hawkins was one of a handful of returning players to the Kinston High School football team. Coming off a 4-6 campaign the year before, head coach Jeff Price noted before the start of the season the 5-foot 10-inch wide receiver/defensive back would be instrumental in a turn-around.

We knew they were going to cover Chris tight, Price said Oct. 28, 2000, following a 20-0 victory against Goldsboro. It was a sentiment Price repeated throughout the season. Hawkins helped propel the Vikings to an 8-5 record in his senior campaign, earning all-conference honors at defensive back, being named to The Free Press

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TOP: The aftermath of the hit-and-run between Anthony Reeses car and that of a 56-year-old woman after Reese allegedly chased and shot at Christopher Hawkins. ABOVE: The home on Briarfield Road Hawkins allegedly shot into with a shotgun that led to the chase between Hawkins and Reese the afternoon of May 3.

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