{"id":317629,"date":"2026-06-24T02:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317629\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T02:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:07:21","slug":"kinston-man-charged-in-head-on-crash-that-killed-jacksonville-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317629\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinston man charged in head-on crash that killed Jacksonville couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JONES COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A Kinston man has been charged in last week\u2019s crash that killed a Jacksonville man and his wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Melvin Cobb, Jr. was charged with two counts of misdemeanor death by vehicle, driving while license revoked, and driving left of center. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Killed in the crash were Spencer and Nikki Latinette, both of Jacksonville. The man\u2019s social media page says the two were married.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Highway Patrol says the crash happened around 3:50 p.m. Thursday on U.S. 258 south of Highway 41.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Troopers say a pickup truck traveling north crossed the centerline and hit a car heading south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The car ran off the road and overturned, throwing out one of the passengers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Troopers say the 31-year-old Spencer Latinette was driving the car, while 33-year-old Nikki Latinette was a front seat passenger. Both died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A backseat passenger, 26-year-old Megan Dorsinville, of Jacksonville was seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JONES COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A Kinston man has been charged in last week\u2019s crash that killed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[48745,2336,2774,1776,131972,116,118,117,3529,4481,1854,131971,131970,131974,131973,4480],"class_list":["post-317629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-car-collision","tag-car-crash","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-ecu-health-medical-center","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jones-county","tag-nc","tag-north-carolina","tag-rico-stephens","tag-state-highway-patrol","tag-u-s-258","tag-unc-health-lenoir","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}