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Two NFL players, Keisean Nixon of the Green Bay Packers and Deommodore Lenoir of the San Francisco 49ers, members of Salesian’s 2013 Southern Section championship team, were chosen for the Golden Mustang award that honors alumni and other supporters of the school.

As I walked through them, I immediately went to those representing Lenoir County and Jones County, North Carolina, where most of my family was born and raised.

One victim was listed in Lenoir County, Lazarus Rouse on August 1, 1916, and one, Jerome Whitefield, on August 14, 1921, in Jones County.

Lenoir estimates that as many as 100 birds have been killed, including at least two hawks.

“In the beginning, the shootings were months apart, but recently it has escalated,” said resident Brenna Lenoir.