Public Safety

Two vehicles were struck by gunfire and a woman hurt Wednesday in the area of Will Inman and Kenny Jordan roads. Keyatta Todd and an infant were traveling on Kenny Jordan around 2:15 p.m. when multiple bullets struck Todd’s vehicle, a report at the sheriff’s office said. Todd was struck in the hand, but the child was not injured. The rounds came through the passenger side of Todd’s...

A Fair Bluff man reportedly shot himself Tuesday when a deputy went to his Fair Bluff home with an order for arrest. The sheriff’s office said a deputy made contact with Tony Tant, 53, at his Conway Road home around 3 p.m. The deputy was there to serve an outstanding warrant for arrest. Tant told the deputy he needed to lock an outbuilding, according to the report, and...

Crack cocaine and illegal parking sent a Wilmington man to jail early Monday morning. Michael Dean Benoy, age 51, was stopped in the middle of the roadway on N.C. 211 near Bolton when a deputy spotted his vehicle around 2 a.m., a report with the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office said. When a deputy stopped to help Benoy, the suspect said he was “looking for something but acted suspicious,”...