Laura Pellicer
Digital News ReporterLaura Pellicer is a digital reporter with WUNC’s small but intrepid digital news team. She is a former producer with The State of Things, a show that explores North Carolina through conversation. Her coverage at WUNC of the controversial Silent Sam Confederate monument garnered a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media.
Laura was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, a city she considers arrestingly beautiful, if not a little dysfunctional. She worked as a researcher for CBC Montreal and also contributed to their programming as an investigative journalist, social media reporter, and special projects planner. Her work has been nominated for two Canadian RTDNA Awards.
Laura loves tracing innovations in science and technology, and pursuing stories about Indigenous communities and environmental justice. She is enamored with her home in North Carolina—notably the lush forests, and the waves where she moonlights as a mediocre surfer.
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State House Republicans have introduced wide-ranging energy legislation. One of the proposals in the Modernize Energy Generation measure is to transition five Duke Energy coal plants in North Carolina to mostly natural gas by 2030. -
In a press conference Tuesday morning, District Attorney Andrew Womble announced he has reviewed the probe by the State Bureau of Investigation and determined that the killing of Andrew Brown Jr. by Pasquotank County Deputies was justified. He will not pursue criminal charges against the officers involved, he said.
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A judge has denied requests to release body camera video in the case of a Black man who killed by North Carolina deputies. The decision came Wednesday shortly after a North Carolina prosecutor said that Andrew Brown Jr. had hit law enforcement officers with his car before they opened fire.
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The family of Andrew Brown Jr. got their first glimpse Monday of the moment when he was shot and killed by Pasquotank County sheriff's deputies. And the calls for that body camera footage to be made public continue.
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Protesters took to the streets in Elizabeth City Monday night following the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s office partial release of body camera video in the killing of Andrew Brown Jr. The protests remained peaceful early in the night, as crowds marched through the city chanting: “Say his name! Andrew Brown!” and "One shot — too many. Twenty seconds — not enough."
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Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten II says his office wants the footage related to the killing of the 42-year-old Black man to be made public. The local NAACP is demanding Wooten's resignation.
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The mayor of Elizabeth City has declared a state of emergency as the community braces for the potential release of body cam footage from the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. by sheriff's deputies last week.
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Rev. Christoppher D. Stackhouse sat down with WUNC to talk about what the verdict means for North Carolina and the nation.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police have arrested and charged two suspects in the shooting deaths of two transgender women found in Charlotte hotel rooms this month.
