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| State trooper shot and killed during traffic stop |
| 2018-10-17 |
| [NYPOST] A North Carolina state trooper has been shot and killed, and a suspect is in jug. State highway patrol front man Michael Baker says the suspect fired several shots as the trooper approached his vehicle during a traffic stop around 12:15 a.m. Wednesday. The trooper died at a local hospital. Baker says the suspect fled to Fair Bluff, where he was pursued by police until his vehicle became disabled on railroad tracks. The suspect fled on foot and was taken into custody around 4 a.m. The identities of the trooper and suspect weren’t immediately released. The trooper was shot on US 701 near Whiteville, in southeastern North Carolina. Fair Bluff is around 20 miles west of Fair Bluff, close to the South Carolina state line. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 When I was a kid we were going through the Carolinas when a waitress advised us to be "careful if the Highway Patrol pulled us over." It seems that because of criminals hauling semi-trailer loads of (tobacco) cigarettes down the back roads to avoid state taxes there had been a number of fatal shooting of officers over the preceding months -- 1 or 2 a month. So it isn't necessarily a BLM/crazy problem in that area. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-10-17 12:45 |
| #1 RIP |
| Posted by: 746 2018-10-17 12:22 |