{"id":823140,"date":"2026-08-29T04:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T04:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/823140\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T04:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T04:09:15","slug":"judge-denies-bond-for-man-accused-of-killing-apex-teacher-basketball-coach-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/823140\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge denies bond for man accused of killing Apex teacher, basketball coach :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man accused of killing an Apex teacher and basketball coach<\/a> made his first court appearance Friday in Wake County, where a judge denied him bond.<\/p>\n

Rickey Harper, 60, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend, 57-year-old Sheremy Dillard, according to Raleigh police.<\/p>\n

Dillard was a basketball coach at Felton Grove High School in Apex. She was found dead Aug. 13 with multiple stab wounds inside her Raleigh home on Whistling Straits Way.<\/p>\n

Court documents show Harper was booked into the Wake County Detention Center on Thursday afternoon after being extradited from Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Harper was arrested there on Aug. 14<\/a> after Raleigh police notified the Plymouth Township Police Department that he might be in the area. He was taken into custody and held at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility after a standoff with detectives.<\/p>\n

As Harper appeared in court Friday, Dillard\u2019s family and friends gathered in Durham for her viewing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt leaves a hole that just can\u2019t be filled, and she\u2019s going to be dearly missed,\u201d said Beverly Rudolph, Dillard\u2019s former principal when she coached and taught in Carrboro.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a very kind but fierce person. What she was fierce about was her beliefs, her faith. She had really strong faith, and she had a fierce belief in her students, particularly her basketball players,\u201d Rudolph said.<\/p>\n

A celebration of life for Dillard will be held Saturday at Hillside High School. She was an alumna of Hillside and North Carolina Central University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man accused of killing an Apex teacher and basketball coach made his first court appearance Friday in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,14497,9971,98043],"class_list":["post-823140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-wake-county"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117176838773715591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}