North Carolina woman on way to visit sister killed when hooligan throws rock through windshield
A 23-year-old woman was killed Wednesday when a hoodlum hurled a rock through her windshield, causing her to crash into a North Carolina home.
Brittany Elizabeth Ferguson was on her way to meet her sister when the rock flew through her car, fatally striking her in the head, according to the North Carolina Highway Patrol.
Her 2006 Ford Taurus veered off the road and through a yard before smashing into the porch of a neighboring home.
Ferguson was pronounced dead at the scene.
“Bad. It was just horrible,” homeowner Abigail Rumlet told WRAL.
“The house can be replaced or repaired … Just closure. That’s what I want for the family.”
The person responsible for throwing the rock is still on the lam, but investigators are looking for a white Chevrolet S-10 single-cab truck.
Witnesses reported seeing the truck — with a man riding in the bed — driving back and forth through the area after the incident.
State troopers theorize the rock was thrown from a car passing in the opposite direction as Ferguson, or by someone who was standing on the side of the road, ABC News reported.
“I hope that whoever did this act will come forward. And man up to what’s happened here, because it’s just an awful tragedy,” said Rumlet.
The brutal attack comes just days after a Colorado teenager pleaded guilty to committing the same crime that left a 20-year-old dead in 2023.
Zachary Kwak, 19, admitted to killing Alexa Bartell with his two buddies during a multi-day spree spent hurling rocks and other objects at cars.
Bartell was returning from work around 10:45 p.m. when a large landscaping rock sailed through her windshield and hit her, authorities said.
