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By News-Argus Staff
Published in News on September 9, 2009 1:46 PM
Death investigations
The Wayne County Sheriff's Office is investigating three deaths reported between Friday and Sunday according to reports. No suspicion of foul play has been reported by deputies in any of the cases. The reports included:
*On Friday morning, authorities arrived at the home of Adrian Christopher Melsha, 31, after a woman who lives with him found him unresponsive, according to a report. Cause of death is pending on the report of the medical examiner.
*On Saturday morning, 59-year-old Blanca Margarita Guzman of Colonel Warrick Road was found dead by a 37-year-old man who lives with her, according to a Wayne County Sheriff's Office report. The man said he found Mrs. Guzman sitting at a table with no signs of life.
*Just after 4 a.m. on Sunday morning, a Dudley woman found her 4-month-old girl in her crib, deceased, a Wayne County Sheriff's Office report shows. Illeah Jeffries of Doug Drive told authorities when she checked on the 4-month old, Yasmin Martinez-Jeffries, she was slightly blue in the face and not breathing around 4:18 a.m. on Sunday, according to the report.
Man shot
An East Elm Street man was shot in the shoulder during an apparent armed robbery at his home, according to Goldsboro police reports. Dionco Hamilton was treated for injuries at Wayne Memorial Hospital after the shooting around 3:30 a.m. on Monday, police said. Hamilton said that he went to his back yard, where his friend Melvin Hinnant of Dudley was standing with two black males he did not know, the report shows. One of the suspects allegedly told Hamilton "don't move," and when Hamilton tried to run back into his house, one of the suspects shot him in the back of his upper right shoulder, the report shows. Investigator Dwayne Bevell is investigating, police said. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Crime Stoppers hotline at 735-2255.