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A sheriff's deputy in North Carolina fatally shot a man on Wednesday morning, the Pasquotank Sheriff's Office confirmed.
Pasquotank Sheriff Tommy S. Wooten II said in a statement shared with 13 News that the shooting happened while deputies were carrying out a search warrant in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
"A citizen who was the subject of the search warrant was shot and fatally wounded," Wooten said.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting.
Neither the victim nor the sheriff's deputy has been identified.
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