North Carolina state officers have opened an investigation into the deadly capturing of a Black man in his automobile by native sheriff’s deputies serving him with a search warrant, authorities and native media reported on Wednesday.
The capturing unfolded on Wednesday morning in Elizabeth City, a riverfront city of about 18,000 residents in Pasquotank County close to North Carolina’s coastal border with Virginia, and small teams of protesters took to the streets by night.
The county sheriff’s workplace and the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), which stated it had taken over the case, every supplied few particulars of the deadly encounter. Authorities recognized the person who was slain as Andrew Brown Jr., a resident of Elizabeth City, and stated solely that he was shot when sheriff’s deputies tried to serve him with a search warrant at about 8:40 a.m.Relatives described him to the Raleigh News & Observer and different media shops as a 40-year-old father and an African American.
Law enforcement officers didn’t say whether or not Brown was armed on the time or whether or not he was thought-about a risk to the officers. The nature of the warrant was not disclosed.The capturing got here the day after a jury discovered Derek Chauvin, a white former Minneapolis police officer, responsible of murdering George Floyd final 12 months by kneeling on his neck whereas he was handcuffed and underneath arrest.
Relatives of Brown informed CNN and different media that he was close to his house and in an car on the time of the capturing.All the deputies on the scene wore police physique cameras, and the deputy who fired the gun was positioned on administrative depart, Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten informed a information convention on Wednesday.
Wooten was accompanied by the native district legal professional, R. Andrew Womble, who stated he was on the lookout for “accurate answers, not fast answers.”As information of the capturing unfold, native media confirmed scores of individuals gathering exterior the city corridor because the City Council held an emergency assembly on Wednesday night time to debate the case and a potential curfew. African Americans account for about half the city’s inhabitants.No curfew was instantly issued, however that authority was given to Police Chief Eddie Buffaloe Jr., who informed the council his objective was “to keep the peace.”
