THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, July 24, 1996 TAG: 9607240393
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: BY ANNE SAITA, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: ELIZABETH CITY LENGTH: 40 lines
A funeral will be held Thursday afternoon for an Elizabeth City Middle School student killed in a bicycle accident last weekend on Body Road.
Juston Jermaine Davis, 13, died Sunday after his bicycle collided with a pickup truck driven by Johnny Dillon Winslow of Winslow Trailer Park in Elizabeth City. The accident occurred at 3:25 p.m.
Juston, of Simpson Ditch Road, was traveling north alongside two other bicyclists when Winslow, also traveling north, came upon the trio.
As Winslow's pickup veered to the left to pass the bicyclists, the teenager turned left into the path of the truck and was struck, said a spokeswoman for the State Highway Patrol in Elizabeth City.
No charges were placed, the spokeswoman said.
Juston attended Elizabeth City Middle School and was preparing to enter ninth grade at Northeastern High School. He was enrolled in this summer's School Year Plus program.
The teenager had had open heart surgery when he was a third-grader at Central Elementary School, school officials said.
They said Juston came from a close-knit family, which included five siblings and his parents, Edith and Preston Davis. Edith Davis works in the cafeteria at Northeastern.
The Davises had attended a family reunion at P.W. Moore Elementary School on Saturday and were at a church service Sunday when the accident occurred, said Fay Agar, assistant principal at the middle school.
As news of the student's death reached staff and classmates Monday, a team of counselors from the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank school system was brought to the summer school program.
``The counselors helped students talk out their feelings and deal with their grief,'' said Sandra Hooker, an instructional specialist working with students at the School Year Plus program for sixth- and eighth- graders.
A memorial is scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday at Mount Lebanon A.M.E. Zion Church, followed by burial at Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Stallings Funeral Home is handling arrangements. by CNB