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List of people killed in NC by severe storms

A list, by county, of 24 people killed by the severe weather that swept across North Carolina on Saturday. (List includes name, age and place of residence, where known):

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A list, by county, of 24 people killed by the severe weather that swept across North Carolina on Saturday. (List includes name, age and place of residence, where known):

BERTIE: 12

— Louis Chamblee, 54, Colerain

— Gayle Hinchey, 56, Colerain

— Peggy Leary, 60, Colerain

— Dorothy Mitchell, 66, Colerain

— Robert Perry, 77, Colerain

— Milton Sutton, 51, Colerain

— Mildred Warren, 68, Colerain

— Celia White, 96, Colerain

— Mary Williams, 50, of Colerain

BLADEN COUNTY: 4

— Brian Batista, 50, Bladenboro

WAKE COUNTY: 4

LEE COUNTY: 2

— Michael Eugene Chambers, 42, Sanford

— Michael Hunter, 43, Sanford

CUMBERLAND COUNTY: 1

HARNETT COUNTY: 1

— Juan Garcia Sanchez, age unknown, Dunn

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Sources: Bertie County Manager Zee Lamb; Bladen County Medical Examiner Kenneth Clark; Raleigh police spokesman Jim Sughrue; Highway Patrol Sgt. Jonathan Davis; Michael Hunter's mother, Patty Thomas Hunter; Cumberland County Sheriff's Department, Dunn Police Chief B.P. Jones.

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