Ties to Highway Patrol leadership raise questions in NC deputy’s killing

Two weeks after Cumberland County Sheriff’s Capt. Adam Bean was found shot to death at a Hope Mills home, officials will only say it involved a domestic dispute between two off-duty law enforcement officers.

For Cumberland County and most others, this is out of the ordinary. Authorities typically release basic homicide details within days.

An investigation by The News & Observer has found that the other officer is a State Highway Patrol trooper, and the woman at the center of the dispute — described as a domestic violence victim — is the sister of the patrol’s commander, Col. Freddy Johnson Jr…

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