Suspect identified as Nigel Edge, 40, combat veteran, was arrested for the alleged opening of fire from the ship to a large group of people in the bar on North Carlin in the coastal city on Saturday, resulting in three deaths and eight injuries, said officials, reporting.
Nigel Edge, the recipient of the purple heart for his service in Iraq, was charged with three number of first -degree murders, five number of first -degree murder attempts and five number of attacks with a deadly weapon with the intention of killing, according to Chief Police Police in Southport on Sunday. The authorities believe that Edge acted himself and described the attack as “highly predicted”.
According to the AP report, Coning said, “We understand that this suspect identifies as a combat veteran. Samo identification. Injured in the line of duty is what he says, suffers from PTSD”, indicating post -traumatic stress disorder.
The CNN message can still be filed with additional fees. Edge was arrested when the American Coast Guard found its ship after the attack, said Oak’s police chief Iceland Charles A. Morris II.
District prosecutor Jon David said that Edge is set to his initial court on Monday and is held without handcuffs. Of the five people hospitalized with injuries at least one “now holds their lives,” David said, according to a report. Some of the victims were visitors from the city.
The suspect had “small contacts” with the police
Police chief Oak Iceland Charlie Morris said that the suspect was known to officers as someone who “who often hung on our pier” and said he had filed lawsuits against the city and police departments in recent years, even though he did not provide further details.
The district prosecutor noted that Edge had “small contacts” with the police with the police, but he said that in his past there was nothing significant, which would suggest that he would be able to such horrors “.
Shooting broke out around 21:30 near the well -known area of bars and restaurants along the Southport embankment, a historic port city, located about 48 km south of Wilmington. The officials said the attacker was navigating a small ship near the shore, stopped briefly, and then started fire on the crowd before escaping quickly. About thirty minutes later, the team of the US Coast Guard saw someone who would take care of the suspicious removal of the ship from the water on the public ramp on the nearby Oak Island.
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