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Police issue warrants in murder of Kannapolis high school senior

Kannapolis Police have issued new warrants in the murder of a high school senior.

Police issued warrants for 17-year-old Damarick Lamar Harper for robbery with a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon.

Police are also still looking for 19-year-old Darius Jamal Smotherson.

Smotherson is wanted for in the murder of Daniel Lee Cooper.

Cooper, 17, was shot in the neck Monday on in the 300 block of West 22nd Street in Kannapolis.

He died at Carolinas Medical Center. Police still don't know what led to the shooting.

Cooper would have graduated from A.L. Brown High School this year.

_{Sat, 26 May 2012 21:36:38 -0400}

Woman blacks out and collides into cement truck

According to The Enquirer Journal, a woman was sent to the hospital after hitting a cement truck Friday morning.

Police said Barbara Brown, 47, of Monroe was driving a Mazda 3 when she blacked out on Old Charlotte Road.  She collided with Christopher Crook, 30, also of Monroe who was driving a cement truck.

The Enquirer Journal reports that Brown had to be cut out of the vehicle and transported to Charlotte Medical Center. Crook was also taken to CMC- Union where he is able to walk and talk.  

The road was closed for several hours during the investigation but is back open tonight.

_{Sat, 26 May 2012 17:57:04 -0400}

KKK opponents bring 'Harmony' to town

Harmony, NC is a quiet town that is not that big. But it drew quite a crowd Saturday.

"This is a peaceful place and we just want to keep it that way," said Lori Dalton, from Harmony.

Dozens of people gathered Saturday to protest a planned KKK rally there.

"This is 2012. You don't hear of stuff like this," said Renee Stevens, who traveled from Troutman.

"Their message is outdated," said Maggie Gordon, who helped organize the protest.

Barbara O'Brien is from Statesville. She helped organize the protest. She says that National Geographic has been following her family and members of the KKK. She was supposed to meet with them Saturday for a dialogue.

"My question will be why, just why," she said.

Eyewitness News first told you about the KKK Rally on Wednesday and was even invited to attend. But as it got closer to the day, the KKK never returned our calls and never told us where it was.

Later in the afternoon, O'Brien got some news from the National Geographic group with the KKK. She shared it with the protesters.

"They passed the word that they were moving from Harmony to Virginia," said O'Brien.

She is still planning to go and have her chance to talk with them. But already, she feels like the protest was worth it.

"I didn't want to ignore injustice, I didn't want to ignore hate. I want to try and make a difference and I think it did make a difference," she said.

The protesters say they feel like Harmony has been put back in the town's name.

Eyewitness News reached out to the KKK several times to try and confirm the rally has been moved and to give the group a chance to comment. No one called us back. 

_{Sat, 26 May 2012 17:53:12 -0400}

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