Deputy hurt, suspect killed in shooting on NC road

SPRING LAKE, N.C. — A North Carolina sheriff’s deputy has been shot in the leg and the man he stopped to question on a rural highway has been killed after an exchange of gunfire.

Harnett County Sheriff Larry Rollins told multiple media outlets the deputy was wounded during an early Tuesday shooting off N.C. Highway 87 near Spring Lake. The deputy was being treated at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center and is expected to recover.

Rollins says two deputies were patrolling when they saw a man sitting in a ditch in front a convenience store. The sheriff says while the officers were talking to the man, he drew a weapon and fired at them.

Rollins says both deputies returned fire, killing the man, whose name has not been released.

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