Did A NC State Trooper Just Kill A Looter In Hurricane-Ravaged Lumberton?

By Bob Owens

According to a news release from the North Carolina Governor’s office, a state trooper and deputies shot and killed a man in some sort of confrontation in hurricane-ravaged Lumberton.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory says a state trooper shot and killed a man during a confrontation amid floodwaters in hart-hit Lumberton.

McCrory said Tuesday that the trooper and two deputies encountered the man while going through high water in a Humvee around 8 p.m. Monday.

McCrory says he has few details about what led to the shooting only saying it happened in “very difficult circumstances.”

Details of the shooting are very sketchy at best, but the incident occurred yesterday at around 8:00 PM, just as a curfew went into effect, and on the same day Lumberton’s police chief warned that law enforcement “would be aggressive” in stopping looting.

The chief of the Lumberton Police Department said he has heard reports of some looting and break-ins he believes is a result of Hurricane Matthew and he and the county sheriff said their officers would be on the lookout for violators and would be aggressive in stopping it.

Police Chief Mike McNeill did not have a lot of details, but said he …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms