{"id":50498,"date":"2026-04-17T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/50498\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:00:44","slug":"new-bern-residents-concerned-after-body-found-in-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/50498\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bern residents concerned after body found in woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW BERN, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Two days have passed since New Bern police<a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2025\/05\/27\/police-body-found-new-bern-woods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> found a man dead <\/a>in the woods Monday night near the Tryon Estates Apartments, and now residents nearby want answers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe have a lot of kids here, a lot of things like that who use this as a community space, so for it to be extremely close to where we live is really concerning,\u201d says New Bern resident Emily Shanks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The call came in when someone was charging their electric car behind the Smithfield\u2019s Chicken \u2018N Bar-B-Q located off Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Blvd on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Someone smelled a foul odor and called New Bern Police. At 8 p.m., they found a dead man in the woods that they say had been there for some time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WITN has yet to learn who the man was or how he died, but New Bern police are working on contacting his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s still a little concerning as a community that they haven\u2019t even come by and like tell us what\u2019s going on or anything like that,\u201d says Shanks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Shanks lives near the wooded area, and says she feels more fear when walking out at night after hearing Monday\u2019s news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cProbably won\u2019t be walking my dog at night anytime soon. I\u2019m very thankful that I do have somebody else with me most of the time that I can be with. But when it comes to safety, especially as a woman, we have to fear a lot of being out at night,\u201d says Shanks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Another resident says he too smelled a foul odor for over two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt was coming through the window, and finally, I had to close the window. I just thought it was an animal,\u201d says New Bern resident David Wimberley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both residents say they hope the community can come together and be there for the family who lost a loved one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cA life was still lost. As a community, I feel like we need to come together and really be there for this family and this person that gone through a tragic lost,\u201d says Shanks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is still an active investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you have any information about this incident, please contact the New Bern Police Department at (252) 633-2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW BERN, N.C. 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