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FBI offers reward in substation shootings

By Paul Garber, Jeff Kirkpatrick
Published February 20, 2023 at 1:19 PM EST
A billboard on Stratford Road in Winston-Salem makes a plea for tips in the case involving substation shootings in Randolph County. PAUL GARBER/WFDD

A billboard on Stratford Road in Winston-Salem makes a plea for tips in the case involving substation shootings in Randolph County. PAUL GARBER/WFDD

The FBI office in Charlotte has announced rewards of up to $25,000 in two separate investigations involving shootings at North Carolina substations, including one in Randolph County. 

Last month, someone fired multiple gunshots at an EnergyUnited substation in northwestern Randolph County outside of Thomasville. No outages were reported. 

That attack followed an incident in Moore County in December when gunshots at two Duke Energy substations led to a massive outage affecting roughly 45,000 customers. 

Substations turn high-voltage electricity into the lower voltages that can be used by residences and businesses.

No arrests have been announced. Agents are continuing to work with the Moore and Randolph county sheriffs. Authorities do not consider the attacks to be connected. 

 
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Crime Substation shootingsDuke EnergyEnergyUnitedFBI
Paul Garber
Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.
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