A top aide to former Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is recovering from a New Year’s shooting in Winston-Salem.
Krishana Polite was shot in the neck outside a church on Old Lexington Road and taken to a nearby hospital, according to a police report. Winston-Salem police say they’re still investigating the incident and no arrests have been made.
Polite was Robinson’s chief of staff last year and was the first Black woman to serve in that role. A GoFundMe page for her recovery says she suffered nerve damage in the shooting. The fundraiser page notes that she was leaving a New Year’s Eve church service at St. Peter’s Church & World Outreach Center when she was shot, and the stray bullet may have come from celebratory gunfire nearby. The police report says the shooting took place around 12:10 a.m. on Jan. 1…