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(ELIZABETH CITY, N.C.) — A sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a Black man while executing a search warrant in North Carolina on Wednesday, authorities said.
The shooting occurred at approximately 8:30 a.m. ET as deputies from the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office attempted to serve the man — identified as Andrew Brown Jr. — a search warrant at his home in Elizabeth City, about 170 miles northeast of Raleigh. Brown was fatally wounded during the encounter, according to Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten.
“It’s been a tragic day,” Wooten said at a brief press conference Wednesday.
Wooten told reporters he wasn’t sure of
