A North Carolina state trooper charged with killing a Cumberland County deputy who had previously dated his girlfriend sought release from jail last month, claiming self-defense, according to recently released court documents.
The judge considered that claim and others, but denied Trooper Nekime Oxendine’s request to set bail, ordering him to remain in jail.
The Sept. 9 hearing followed the 44-year-old Oxendine’s arrest on a first-degree murder charge in the March 27 killing of Capt. Adam Bean in Hope Mills, about 70 miles south of Raleigh…