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- Deputies from the Pasquotank Sheriff's Office in North Carolina shot and killed Andrew Brown Jr. on April 21.
- Sheriff Tommy Wooten released the names of the seven deputies involved in the killing.
- Wooten absolved four of the deputies of any crime, but the three deputies that shot Brown are still on administrative leave.
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Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten has released the names of the seven deputies involved in the fatal police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
The officers have been named as Lieutenant Steven Judd, Sergeant Michael Swindell, Sergeant Kenneth Bishop, Sergeant Joel Lunsford, Investigator Daniel Meads, Deputy Sheriff II Robert Morgan, and Corporal Aaron Lewellyn.
Wooten said in a press release that Judd, Swindell, Bishop, and Lunsford did not fire any shots and have returned to active duty.
"After reviewing the preliminary conclusions of the independent investigators conducting the internal review, and after carefully examining the body camera footage of the incident with my own staff, it's obvious that four of the deputies never fired their weapons and deserve to be reinstated to active duty," Wooten said.
Wooten said that Meads, Morgan, and Lewellyn are still on administrative leave until the internal investigation is complete.
"More investigation is necessary into the three deputies who did fire their weapons and they will remain on administrative leave pending completion of the internal investigation and/or the criminal investigation being conducted by the State Bureau of Investigation."
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