Man charged in violent Raleigh crime spree back in NC

A 21-year-old man who is charged in a deadly crime spree along Raleigh's Capital Boulevard was returned to Wake County Wednesday after spending the last two months in custody in New York City.
Posted 11/5/2015, 12:10:51 PM Updated 9/23/2025, 7:51:00 PM

I'M BILL LESLIE.

>> I'M MICHELLE MARSH.

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS

AFTERNOON.

RAPE, ROBBERY, AND MURDER.

THOSE ARE THE CHARGES KENDRICK

GREGORY WILL ANSWER TO IN COURT

TODAY.

>> GREGORY IS CHARGED WITH A

VIOLENT CRIME SPREE IN AUGUST.

HE WAS LATER ARRESTED IN NEW

YORK BUT JUST RETURNED TO NORTH

CAROLINA THIS MORNING.

WRAL'S AMANDA LAMB IS HERE WITH

A PREVIEW OF THE HEARING.

>>Reporter: BILL AND MICHELLE,

AFTER GREGORY WAS ARRESTED, HE

FOUGHT EXTRADITION WHICH MEANS

THE STATE HAD TO GO THROUGH A

LEGAL PROCESS TO GET A

GOVERNOR'S TWOORNT HAVE HIM

RETURNED HERE.

-- WARRANT TO HAVE HIM RETURNED

HERE.

OUR GOVERNOR ASKS NEW YORK'S

GOVERNOR TO RELEASE HIM TO FACE

CHARGES HERE IN NORTH CAROLINA.

HE FACES A LONG LIST OF CHARGES

INCLUDING MURDER AND RAPE.

THERE WAS A MASSIVE MANHUNT.

HE WAS ARRESTED IN NEW YORK

AFTER INVESTIGATORS TRACKED HIM

WITH A GPS IN A STOLEN CAR.

HE IS ACCUSED OF KILLING A

POPULAR PAWNSHOP OWNER,

64-YEAR-OLD THOMAS DURAND.

HE OWNED MR. PAWN ON CAPITOL

BOULEVARD.

HE IS ALSO ACCUSED OF SHOOTING A

MAN AT A HOTEL EARLIER IN THE

DAY AND RAPING A 15-YEAR-OLD

GIRL LATER THAT NIGHT.

HE WILL MAKE HIS FIRST

APPEARANCE IN COURT TODAY.

PEOPLE WHO KNEW HIM, WE'VE BEEN

TALKING TO THEM, PEOPLE THAT

INTERACTED WITH HIM IN THE

COMMUNITY SAID HE HAD BEEN IN

AND OUT OF JAIL AND MENTAL

HEALTH FACILITIES AND HE DIDN'T

APPEAR TO BE GETTING THE HELP HE

NEEDED.

WE'LL HAVE MUCH MORE ON THIS,

PLUS THE COURT APPEARANCE,

COMING UP IN THE LATER SHOWS

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