{"id":23333,"date":"2026-03-02T21:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/23333\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T21:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:23:06","slug":"man-behind-bars-following-new-bern-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/23333\/","title":{"rendered":"Man behind bars following New Bern shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A man is now behind bars after an overnight shooting in New Bern left one injured last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jequell Stewart was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and resist\/delay\/obstruct a public officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Monday afternoon, police said they arrested 21-year-old Stewart, who was walking near Miller Street and had tried to run away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/02\/19\/new-bern-police-investigating-overnight-shooting\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/02\/19\/new-bern-police-investigating-overnight-shooting\/\">Just before 12:30 a.m. on Feb. 19<\/a>, New Bern police were called to a shooting at Trent Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers found a man who had been shot in the leg when they got to the area. He was taken to CarolinaEast Medical Care with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Stewart is being held in the Craven County Jail without bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A man is now behind bars after an overnight shooting in New Bern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,108,9594,14936,117,107,14940,118,14937,5980,14939,14938,9451,105],"class_list":["post-23333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bern","tag-bern","tag-craven-county","tag-injured","tag-jequell-stewart","tag-nc","tag-new-bern","tag-new-bern-shooting","tag-north-carolina","tag-shoot","tag-shooting","tag-shot","tag-shots","tag-trent-court","tag-witn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}