RFP Staff
Salisbury Police sources that officers were called around 4 a.m. Thursday to the scene of vehicle break-ins at the Crown Point Apartment complex near Sunset Drive. Officers converged on the area with a description of a 2010 White Honda Accord with a stolen license plate was provided by a witness at the Crown Point Apartment Parking lot. Officers quickly found a match in the Alexander Station Apartment parking lot, but when they attempted to stop the car with three occupants, the Honda Accord sped off, accelerating at speeds of 80 mile-per-hour. From Statesville Boulevard to Jake Alexander Boulevard with tires squeeling, and then to Statesville Boulevard and Mahaley Avenue. At adrenalin speed the Honda Accord smashed into a stonewall across from the Knox Middle School entrance on West Park Drive.
Suspects’s 2010 white Honda Accord:
The crash mangled the front end of the Honda Accord. It’s driver, identified as Eugene Green of Charlotte, sat inertly behind the wheel with a fractured leg while his two companions high-tailed into the darkness and freedom. Green was taken to a yet to be identified area hospital for leg surgery. He has not yet been formerly arrested or charged which will come after his hospital release.
Eugene Green:
Salisbury Police investigators searched the Honda Accord and located burglary tools and items stolen from the Crown Point Apartment parking lot. Some potential problems for suspect Green.
**This article will be updated as more information arrives.**