North Carolina Teen Suspected in Foster Parents' Deaths Dies

Authorities found a married couple, Joann Nicole Chavis and Ted Matthew Chavis, dead in their Red Springs home Monday evening; deputies said the pair had been stabbed. Hoke County investigators named the couple’s 17-year-old foster child as the suspect and tracked the teen’s vehicle about 50 miles away to the Boys and Girls Homes of North Carolina campus in Lake Waccamaw. During a coordinated campus search, officers located the juvenile in an unoccupied area; the teen inflicted self‑harm and was taken by first responders to a hospital, where they later died. The State Bureau of Investigation is handling the probe into the teen’s death and a multi‑county investigation into the killings and suicide remains active. Authorities said no staff or civilians at the campus were harmed, the juvenile’s identity is being withheld because of their age, and law enforcement has asked anyone with information to contact investigators.