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Lexi Solomon

@solomonlexib.bsky.social

Emerging news reporter at The News & Observer. Virginia Tech alumna.🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈

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Lexi Solomon@solomonlexib.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It's most people's worst nightmare — spending over a year in jail for a crime you didn't commit. For one Durham woman, it's her reality. And I was the only reporter in the courtroom yesterday to find out why. (FREE LINK) www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c...

NC woman’s spent a year in jail on a murder charge. Why both sides want her out.

Patricia Ayers, 32, was arrested in 2024 in her boyfriend Mikel Johnson’s death. But Durham police may have charged the wrong woman.

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Keung Hui@keunghui.bsky.social · last yr.

Johnston County man arrested after confessing to killing his 4 children, sheriff says. Deputies found one child alive; the remains of four others were in a vehicle trunk. (Via @solomonlexib.bsky.social) www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c...

Johnston County man arrested after confessing to killing his 4 children, sheriff says

Officials have identified the four children that Wellington Dickens III, 38, is charged with killing. They were found dead in a vehicle in his garage.

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Lexi Solomon@solomonlexib.bsky.social · last yr.

I told my editor this winter I felt we were seeing a lot of murder-suicides, more than I'd ever reported on in my career. He told me I should look into it. I'm sad to say that hunch was accurate, but it turned into a 3-part series on domestic violence homicides in NC. (1/6)

Anna Roman@annamroman.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Children are dying in North Carolina at the second-highest rate recorded in over a decade — and Black and American Indian youth are at special risk," according to a new report. Details from @solomonlexib.bsky.social www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...

NC Black babies died at 3 times the rate of white infants in 2023, new report shows

The 2025 annual report from the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force shows worsening disparities in child deaths.

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Keung Hui@keunghui.bsky.social · 2y ago

Former interim ECU chancellor charged in fatal Raleigh crash with teen motorcyclist. Dan Gerlach resigned in 2019 from ECU after photos and videos were posted online showing him socializing with students at local bars. (Via @solomonlexib.bsky.social) www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c... #nced #ncpol

Former interim ECU chancellor charged in fatal Raleigh crash with teen motorcyclist

Dan Gerlach is charged with a misdemeanor after an accident where an 18-year-old was killed on Falls of Neuse Road.

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Lexi Solomon@solomonlexib.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fun fact: I live at a Greystar property and had to pay a $700 security deposit because their AI software got confused by my offer letter having an hourly wage and assumed I didn't make enough. I wasn't allowed to resubmit a new letter. 🥲 www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

NC accuses 6 landlords of ‘illegally working together’ to raise rents in RealPage lawsuit

An amended complaint names six landlords as defendants in ongoing litigation that North Carolina and several other states, along with the federal government, began in August.

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Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · 2y ago

Worst thing about Pamela Colloff's pieces? I have to decide whether to read it immediately or later when I can concentrate. The correct answer is both.

Pamela Colloff@pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW, from me: Shaken baby syndrome--a diagnosis that has resulted in wrongful convictions across the country--continues to shape criminal prosecutions and child welfare investigations, under the name "abusive head trauma." My story of what happened to one family. www.propublica.org/article/shak...