By Jheri Hardaway
Staff Writer
Raleigh, NC — When we first brought you the story of Gwendolyn White, our community was forced to confront a deeply uncomfortable reality: a citizen can call for help, waving a flag of distress, only to find herself met with absolute institutional silence and corruption. When a citizen is trapped in a nightmare, the standard advice is always the same: call the police. Trust the system. Keep a record. Gwen White did all three to an exhausting degree. Over the course of her residency in Roseville, she dialed local emergency services and police dispatch a staggering 467 times. She kept logs, tracked dates, and waited for help that routinely failed to show up. To put that number in perspective, 467 calls means reaching out for help multiple times a week for years. It represents a desperate, unrelenting effort to utilize the traditional channels of civic protection. Instead of protection, Gwen found a wall of institutional silence and, she alleges, open complicity.
Since our first report, The Carolinian has dug deeper into the paper trail, the timelines, and a harrowing two-hour interview from August 2024 that lays out an indictment of our local safety nets. Additionally, since that time, Gwendolyn Evette White, 57, has been charged with several felonies stemming from the May 22 incident, including: two counts of attempted murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury, and two counts of assault inflicting serious bodily injury.
Our intention is not to defend her 2026 actions; we do not support shooting anyone. We are here to provide the backstory told to us directly by Ms. White that has been suppressed and ignored by area media institutions. In her most recent court appearance, Ms. White continues to assert that the Rolesville Police Department demanded that she provide sensitive government information. Her refusal led to the harassment outlined here. Our communication with Ms. White ended roughly a year ago, so this insight does not speak to her current state, only to the August 2024, in-person, first-hand conversation. You can find a clip on The Carolinian YouTube page. Now, let’s pick up from where part one of this story concluded based on what Ms. White shared.
By March of 2020, the world outside was locking down due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But inside 733 Stratwood Way, the anxieties of broken locks quickly escalated into an overt, terrifying threat against their physical health. The turning point came in the middle of that month, Gwen recounts a day when an unfamiliar woman stepped through her door. The woman was dressed to look like a medical professional, presenting herself as a visiting nurse. In the confusion of early 2020 healthcare protocols, it was a perfect camouflage. But Gwen immediately sensed something was wrong, calling the provider for clarification while her mom was seen. The provider insisted that Gwen had canceled, making the situation more concerning. Gwen confronted the woman directly, demanding to know who she was and who had sent her. The fraudulent nurse quickly retreated and left the property.
The real horror, however, manifested shortly after the intruder vanished. Within a matter of hours, Gwen’s eighty-four-year-old mother suffered a sudden, catastrophic physical collapse. She began hemorrhaging severely from multiple parts of her body. The emergency was so violent and unexplained that she had to be rushed to the hospital, where she remained confined to a medical wing for several weeks, fighting for her life.
It was a devastating blow, and for Gwen, it connected back to a single, terrifying realization: her home was no longer safe, and the water or food inside it could be compromised. As spring turned to April and May, the psychological warfare intensified. Gwen reported a relentless series of quiet break-ins that occurred while she stepped away or slept. The intruders didn't steal her television or valuables. Instead, they left calling cards. Gwen shared she began finding small stickers placed precisely inside her most personal, everyday home appliances. They were affixed to the interior walls of her refrigerator, tucked inside the stove, and placed inside the microwave.
To the outside world, a sticker inside an appliance sounds trivial, almost easily dismissed. But to Gwen, the message was loud and clear. It was an intentional psychological taunt designed to show her that someone could bypass her locks at will, access the food she cooked, touch the appliances her mother relied on, and leave without a trace.
When Gwen looked to her neighbors for answers or solidarity, a breakthrough came from an unexpected source. She recalls a conversation with a neighbor who pointed her toward a specific family on the block. The neighbor explicitly named neighbors Craig and Michelle Larscheid, alleging they were deeply involved in the coordinated campaign to drive Gwen and her mother out of Roseville and that other minorities had been driven from the community in the past as well. Litigation began between Ms. White and the Larscheids in 2021. After several trips the the Wake County Courthouse we learned that court transcripts are only kept for three years.
Ms. White outlined that the lawyer for the Larscheid in this appearance admitted to the harassment but informed the judge that no action could be taken because she spoke on behalf of her clients thus it was not a direct admission of guilt. This began Ms. White’s fight for proof and her litigation with Rolesville for police body cameras and flock camera footage. This footage to this day has not been shared with Ms. White or any other media outlets. To be continued.
