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WHAT: Correctional Officer Wendy Shannon’s Memorial Service

WHERE: Floyd L. Robinson Auditorium

Burnim Fine Arts Center

Elizabeth City State University

Geoffrey Howe, a maintenance mechanic for Pasquotank Correctional Institution, passed away Thursday at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital from injuries suffered during a failed inmate escape attempt on Oct.

Correctional Officer Wendy Shannon passed away Monday evening at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital from injuries suffered during an inmate escape attempt Oct.

Today, Governor Roy Cooper released the following statement on the passing of Pasquotank Correctional Officer Wendy Shannon:

Cleanup and damage assessment work continues in several western North Carolina counties after Monday’s strong storms and tornadoes.

A line of strong storms moved across North Carolina Monday afternoon and evening devastating a regional airport, damaging dozens of homes, toppling trees, closing roads and leaving several western North Carolina communities without power.

WHAT: Correction Enterprises Manager Veronica Darden and Correctional Officer Justin Smith’s Memorial Services

WHERE: Floyd L. Robinson Auditorium

              Burnim Fine Arts Center

The Department of Public Safety is taking more action to make prisons safer following a violent attack at Pasquotank Correctional Institution in Elizabeth City that claimed the lives of two prison employees on Thursday, Oct. 12.

WHAT: Correction Enterprises Manager Veronica Darden and Correctional Officer Justin Smith’s Memorial Services

Death row inmate Terry Ball, 59, died this morning of natural causes at Central Prison.