Things are very tense here in Elizabeth City. Lots of emotions. Deputies were serving a search warrant. @WAVY_News pic.twitter.com/JITfoWYuT7
— Jason Marks (@jasonmarkswavy) April 21, 2021
40 year old Andrew Brown was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy in Elizabeth City, North Carolina this morning. 6-8 shots were fired as Brown was trying to flee in his car. An angry crowd gathered at the scene claiming police brutality, claiming Brown was unarmed and shot in the back.
We’re told the man was shot in his car. @WAVY_News pic.twitter.com/CmeNiYVKFh
— Jason Marks (@jasonmarkswavy) April 21, 2021
A North Carolina sheriff says the deputy who shot and killed a man while serving a search warrant has been put on leave pending an investigation. Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten II did not identify the deputy who fired the shot Wednesday.
He told a news conference that the deputy was wearing a body camera that was on at the time. District Attorney Andrew Womble said an investigation by the State Bureau of Investigation would be thorough and “will not be a rush to judgment.”
Wooten says it was a Pasquotank County Deputy fired the gun. He says there is body camera video. @WAVY_News
— Jason Marks (@jasonmarkswavy) April 21, 2021
Wooten says it was a Pasquotank County Deputy fired the gun. He says there is body camera video. @WAVY_News
— Jason Marks (@jasonmarkswavy) April 21, 2021
See full press conference below:
