Twins Stabbed at NC A&T

[aggierob]

Twins stabbed at NC A&T
Eyewitness News exclusive
By Gilbert Baez
(10/30/07 -- FAYETTEVILLE) - A double stabbing at a historically black college has the mother of twins furious. The incident happened Monday on the North Carolina A&T University campus in Greensboro.

Dante and Demetrius Hester said gang members attacked them because of the colors they were wearing. The twins are recovering in Fayetteville.
My friends drove us to the hospital after we was up in my girl's room," Dante said. "The next thing I started bleeding too bad. I lost a lot of blood."

The brothers are freshmen at A&T.

Around 6:30 p.m. Monday, the two were stabbed after leaving the cafeteria on campus. Demetrius said he was confronted by three people, one of whom told him he couldn't wear the colors he had on.

"I had my Rocawear outfit on," Demetrius said. "It was blue, orange, red and yellow. So he got mad talking about my scarf."

The twins said the men jumped them in an area outside their dorm. During the fight, Demetrius was stabbed in his upper back and his brother was cut just above the kidneys.

"I didn't know I had got stabbed until after they had ran away," Demetrius said. "And then my brother was getting up I looked at him. His shirt was all like -- he was like, my shirt wet or something. And he looked at his shirt it was just all bloody."

Dante said he thought he saw security about ten minutes after the stabbing.

The pair rushed themselves to Moses Cone Hospital. Their mother is furious no one from the university called to tell her the twins were injured. She believes the attacks were gang-related.

"They obviously had on the wrong colors," Cheryl Hester, twins' mother, said. "I was told by security quote-unquote that they realize that there is a problem going on campus with gangs."

The university said it has no reports of gang activities on campus. Campus and Greensboro police are looking for suspects.

Meanwhile the twins are recovering at home in Fayetteville. The family is trying to decide if they'll return to A&T.

[A&T AGGIE 96]

What the hell...?

[@ProfBellamy]

The story does not seem like the whole picture... these kids most likely have something going on that they aren't telling their mother.....and WHY DIDN'T THEY CALL 911 or find security??? Because if they were outside of the cafe at 6:30, there is security inside of the building and usually nearby.

Instead: My friends drove us to the hospital after we was up in my girl's room," Dante said. "The next thing I started bleeding too bad. I lost a lot of blood."

Thats the sign of: "I got myself into something that my mama don't need to know "

So, why did the university not call the mama??? Because these idiots didn't allow the university to know about the situation and by the time they found out...it was because they decided to keep this on the low and guess what!!!! They make something else that isn't but so bad...look so much worse.

Idiots... you have insurance through the university or privately... its not snitching when you almost about to die damnit!

Oh yea on the situation: Every school has a gang problem, every city, state...whatever. However, gangs aren't an issue for most people unless you've put yourself into the wrong place at the wrong time. Something about his story doesn't seem right...

[aggiejazz]

I am thinking the same thing, "what hooligans are hanging around the 'caf' at 6:30?" but I am no longer there so current students tell us graduates if there are a lot bad guys/criminals lurking around campus?

[Gator]

I'm with you guys on this one!

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[bluehaze]

It's hit the front page of the News & Record now. Notice how there is no mention of how the boys went up to the girlfriend's dorm room and then were taken to the hospital. The N&R article makes it seem as if they were laid out on the ground and their friends walked by, saw them and took them to Moses Cone.


Two A&T freshmen stabbed in campus attack By Ryan Seals
Staff Writer
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007 6:40 am

Credit: News & Record file
A&T issued a campus safety alert to all students late Tuesday.
GREENSBORO — Two freshmen at N.C. A&T were attacked Monday night on campus, according to the university and the students' family.

A&T issued a campus safety alert to all students late Tuesday.

Twins Dante and Demetrius Hester, 18, of Fayetteville, were attacked and stabbed about 7:30 p.m. Monday while leaving the campus cafeteria, their mother, Cheryl Hester, said.

Five men confronted the twins over the colors they were wearing, she said. Demetrius Hester was wearing a red, orange and yellow scarf that belonged to his 25-year-old brother, along with matching sneakers.

"One of the guys said, 'You can't wear those colors,'" Cheryl Hester said.

After a brief exchange, the men attacked the twins with a knife, Cheryl Hester said. Dante was cut on his back, neck and eye. Demetrius was cut along the top of the shoulder blade.

Cheryl Hester said friends rushed the twins to Moses Cone Hospital for treatment.

"The kids called us screaming that nobody was helping them," their mother said.

The brothers were treated and released from the hospital and are recovering at home in Fayetteville, she said.

"I was doing 95 (mph) flying up there," Cheryl Hester said. "When I found out the boys were OK, my first question was: Where was security? Why did my children have to call me and tell me they were being stitched up? Not one adult called me."

Mable Scott, A&T's assistant vice chancellor for university relations, offered few details about the attack when reached late Tuesday night.

"In order to safeguard the investigation that is incomplete and still ongoing by our university police department, some details were not shared with our office," Scott said. "They are trying to solve the case in order to find the perpetrators."

Cheryl Hester said she thinks the attack was gang-related because the men commented about colors. She said the attack was random, and her sons did not know the men.

Scott said police have yet to determine a motive, noting that A&T police Chief Richard Holden has not seen any "definitive evidence of gang activity" on campus.

Campus officials who normally contact parents in these situations were not notified, she said.

"It is unfortunate that we were not able to talk to Mrs. Hester on Monday evening, and I apologize for that," Scott said. "This is not a normal occurrence, and the proper systems and protocols have been put in place to ensure this does not happen again."

Cheryl Hester said Tuesday she is unsure if she will allow her sons to return to A&T.

"That may change. They probably have more courage than I do," she said. "Right now, we are not sure

[@ProfBellamy]

I talked to their cousin today. This whole situation just won't make any sense. Apparently, the bystanders and people in the Village (note: apparently it occurred in the village) saw just an altercation, not a stabbing. So many variables, but my thing is this: call an ambulance...and UPD would show up concurrently.