A judge refused bail for North Carolina State Highway Patrol Trooper Nekime Oxendine. According to ABC11, she faces first-degree murder charges after the March 27 shooting death of Cumberland County Sheriff’s Capt. Adam Bean in Hope Mills. Superior Court Judge James Floyd Ammons Jr. rejected her request at a Sept. 9 hearing. The 44-year-old must remain behind bars.
Nekime Oxendine says she acted in self-defense, per the report. Court documents revealed this eight days after the hearing. The trooper submitted an affidavit backing her claim. So did a female deputy who witnessed the shooting.
Adam Bean was 42. He served as assistant chief of detectives and spent nearly two decades with the sheriff’s office. The shooting took place outside a female deputy’s home on Seattle Slew Lane…