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A year after Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office deputies shot and killed Andrew Brown Jr. while trying to arrest him on charges that he was selling illegal drugs, the small, coastal community at the center of it remains divided.
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Brown’s family and others are still waiting for key developments in the case — including the results of an ongoing FBI probe, a family lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages, and a media petition for the public release of body camera footage.
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The family of Andrew Brown Jr., an unarmed Black man who was fatally shot by sheriff's deputies in Elizabeth City, says he died because of the officers' “intentional and reckless disregard of his life,” according to a $30 million civil rights lawsuit filed Wednesday.
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Andrew Brown Jr., who was fatally shot in April by sheriff's deputies in Elizabeth City, died from a “penetrating gunshot wound of the head,” according to the official autopsy results released Thursday.
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Two deputies who fired shots in the April incident that killed Brown, came back from leave this week, the Pasquotank County, N.C., sheriff said. A third deputy will leave at the end of June.
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Elizabeth City police are investigating possible hate crime enhancements to felony and misdemeanor charges against a woman who drove her car through protesters on Monday night, reports Carolina Public Press.
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Authorities say that a white woman has been charged with striking two Black women protesters with her car during a march against the police shooting of an unarmed Black man in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
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Some of the biggest stories of the week: A prosecutor decided not to file charges against deputies in the shooting death of Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City, there's controversy over a plan in Mecklenburg County's proposed budget, Charlotte's 2040 plan is closer to being passed, and we look at Bojangles Coliseum's history as its vaccine clinic is extended.
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Many U.S. police departments limit shooting at moving vehicles because they consider the practice to be ineffective and not worth the risk to human life. But dozens of such shootings still occur each year with deadly results. The latest high-profile case involved an unarmed Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City.
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Police have arrested several people during protests in Elizabeth City, including two journalists who were covering the demonstration the day after a district attorney cleared sheriff’s deputies in the shooting death of Andrew Brown Jr.