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APEX, N.C. (WNCN) — Students and staffers of a Wake County Public School System high school are mourning the death of a teacher and basketball coach who was killed in a stabbing earlier this week, Raleigh and Wake County officials said.
Sheremy Gwenette Dillard, who coached at Felton Grove High School in Apex, was found dead Thursday afternoon in Raleigh after relatives told police that they had not heard from her, according to the Raleigh Police Department and Wake County Public School System.
Police said Dillard appeared to die from stabbing injuries and they sought her boyfriend, Rickey Harper, with whom she lived with along Whistling Straits Way, a Raleigh police news release said.
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Harper was charged with first-degree murder after he was taken into custody Friday afternoon in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Raleigh police said.
Before joining Felton Grove High, Sheremy Dillard was the girls basketball coach at Carrboro High School. In 2023, she was named the Northern Lakes Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in that sport. Photo courtesy: Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Meanwhile that same day, Felton Grove High families were told about Dillard’s tragic death.
“It is with great sadness that I write this message to let you know that our recovery teacher and girls basketball coach, Sheremy Dillard, has passed away,” Felton Grove High School Principal Robert Morrison said in a note to school parents and students.