A driver killed while exchanging shots with a deputy had allegedly been shooting at the town’s police station minutes earlier, according to investigators in eastern North Carolina.
The gunfight happened just before 1 a.m. Tuesday in Elizabethtown, and the driver has been identified as 50-year-old Michael Bynum Horne Jr., of White Oak, the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office said in a May 12 news release.
“At approximately 12:30 a.m., the Bladen County Communication Center received a call from a concerned citizen stating she saw a white colored Honda Accord in front of the Elizabethtown Police Department, shooting at the department,” the sheriff’s office said…