Police shootings

Incidents in which police officers kill or injure someone in North Carolina are going to be recorded statewide for the first time in a database. But the information will not be made available to the public.

A 33-year-old man was shot and killed by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Friday evening after police say he pointed a gun at a Walmart security officer and threatened to shoot officers.

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.

Mecklenburg County District Attorney Spencer Merriweather will not press charges against Eric Tillman, a senior inspector with the U.S. Marshals Service who shot and killed Frankie Jennings in east Charlotte in March.

Authorities in a Gaston County town say a man has died after being shot by a police officer trying to serve a warrant.

North Carolina senators are interested in altering parts of the state's 2016 police body camera law in light of what's happened recently following the fatal police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City.

Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten II said his office wants the body camera footage related to the killing of Andrew Brown Jr. to be made public.

Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten II says the seven are on leave after the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. on Wednesday. Three other deputies' resignations were not related to the incident.

Leaders of a North Carolina city where a Black man was shot and killed by deputies serving search and drug-related warrants planned Friday to vote on a resolution urging a court to release body camera video of the shooting.

Residents of Elizabeth City, N.C., are pressing for answers after a Black man, Andrew Brown Jr., was shot dead by a sheriff's deputy carrying out a search warrant on Wednesday.