LUMBERTON — A National Guardsman from Lumberton was killed and another injured Saturday night when their vehicle collided with two Scotland County sheriff’s vehicle.

The state Highway Patrol said that a vehicle occupied by the two soldiers ran a stop sign on N.C. 144 in Laurel Hill and struck the sheriff’s vehicle head-on.

Andre Nelson, 22, of Lumberton, a passenger in the vehicle was killed. Authorities don’t think he was wearing a seat belt.

The driver, 24-year-old Rasheed McLain of Fayetteville, was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.

The two sheriff’s deputies were treated and released from a hospital.

Authorities said that charges against McLain are pending.

A Robeson County resident was one of two people were killed in an accident on Thursday after failing to stop at a stop sign.

According to a report filed by Trooper K.D. Britt, James Dacquan Harris and Cieaira Nicole Melvin were killed when Harris failed to stop at a stop sign and their vehicle was struck.

The accident occurred at about 4 p.m., about three-tenths of a mile north of McDonald. Harris, 22, lived on Deer Run Drive in Roanoke Rapids and Melvin, 26, lived on Jelly Bean Drive in St. Pauls. According to the report, Harris was driving his Ford Mustang west on Stone Road. When the Mustang entered an intersection at Davis Road, it was struck by an Isuzu SUV driven by Crystal Gale Hunt, causing it to overturn.

Harris had been driving at about 70 mph in the 55-mph zone, the report said. Hunt was traveling within the speed limit. Hunt, who lives on Iona Church Road in Rowland, was taken to a hospital with non-critical injuries.

In a third accident, a St. Pauls man has been charged in a wreck that killed a former Fayetteville police sergeant, according to The Fayetteville Observer.

Fernando Gomez-Nuñez, of Acorn Drive, is charged with involuntary manslaughter, felony hit and run and driving without a license.

According to the paper, former Fayetteville policeman Thomas Glascock was travelling south on his Harley Davidson motorcycle on Marracco Drive just before 11 p.m. on Thursday when he was struck by a Chevrolet Monte Carlo driven by Gomez-Nuñez. Glascock, 55, was pronounced dead at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center.

Gomez-Nuñez left on foot, the paper reported, and investigators tracked him down after finding a to-go box of food from Fred Chason’s Grandsons left in his disabled car, the paper reported.

Gomez-Nuñez later turned himself in and was jailed in the Cumberland County Detention Center under a $500,000 bond.