NPR: “District Attorney Andrew Womble has declined to file charges against Pasquotank County, N.C., sheriff’s deputies in the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. last month in Elizabeth City. His decision followed an inquiry by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, which presented its findings to the prosecutor.
At a press conference Tuesday morning, Womble said Brown’s shooting by three deputies was “tragic” but “justified,” because law enforcement officers “reasonably believed” they were in danger.
Brown, 42, was shot and killed in his car by deputies as they arrived to carry out warrants in drug-related charges in Elizabeth City on April 21. He was killed a day after a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder in George Floyd’s killing.
Brown’s family has called his death an “execution.””