Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office

Attorneys who represented the estate of Andrew Brown Jr. say they are entitled to $1.2 million of the $3 million settlement reached with Pasquotank County.

Brown was killed on April 21 of last year by Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputies while they were serving drug-related warrants at his Elizabeth City home.

A year after Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office deputies shot and killed Andrew Brown Jr. while trying to arrest him on charges that he was selling illegal drugs, the small, coastal community at the center of it remains divided.

The family of an unarmed Black man who was fatally shot by sheriff's deputies in North Carolina has filed a $30 million civil rights lawsuit. Wednesday's filing in federal court says Andrew Brown Jr. died because of the deputies' "reckless disregard of his life."

Host Dave DeWitt speaks with WUNC's Will Michaels, who is in Elizabeth City, about District Attorney Andrew Womble's rationale for not prosecuting the deputies who shot and killed Andrew Brown Jr.

Elizabeth City officials said that starting Friday night, the curfew will run from midnight until 6 a.m. On previous nights, the curfew had taken effect at 8 p.m.

Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten announced in a news release that he has restored to duty four out of the seven deputies who were placed on administrative leave after the shooting death of Andrew Brown Jr.

The FBI has launched a civil rights probe into the death of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man killed by deputies in North Carolina.

Protesters took to the streets in Elizabeth City Monday night following the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s office partial release of body camera video in the killing of Andrew Brown Jr. The protests remained peaceful early in the night, as crowds marched through the city chanting: “Say his name! Andrew Brown!” and "One shot — too many. Twenty seconds — not enough."