Greensboro News & Record
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Guilford County district attorney has concluded that a deputy acted appropriately to defend his life during an August shootout with a suspect.
The district attorney reviewed a report from the State Bureau of Investigation concerning the nonfatal shooting.
Deputy J.W. Mecham stopped a suspicious person walking about 4:15 a.m. Aug. 29 at Wiley Lewis and Pleasant Garden roads, according to a news release from District Attorney Doug Henderson,
The deputy checked the man’s identification and determined that Daniel Roy Smith had escaped from a halfway house where he was serving the remainder of a sentence for bank robbery. Smith was wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service.
Mecham attempted to arrest the man, who pulled a .38-caliber revolver and fired several times at the officer, according to the release.
Mecham returned fire, striking the man four times. The deputy was not injured.
S.C. man given 35 years for killing Greensboro man
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - A South Carolina man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for killing a North Carolina man in a fight over a woman and leaving the body just off Interstate 85.
Prosecutors say 22-year-old Fredy Sibrian pleaded guilty to murder Monday, the day his trial was supposed to begin.
Authorities say Sibrian killed 36-year-old Marcial Perez of Greensboro in April 2008 because he was jealous of the relationship Perez had with 25-year-old Patricia De Ramos.
Perez’s body was found by women looking for scrap metal along the side of I-85 near Spartanburg.
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