By MES Dispatch Staff
The Briefing
- A Greene County, North Carolina, sheriff’s deputy was killed in a patrol car crash just before 8:30 p.m. Thursday in the Snow Hill area.
- The deputy lost control of the vehicle while on Highway 258 North, north of the Highway 13 intersection, trying to catch up with another deputy involved in a pursuit.
- The pursuit began in Farmville and came into Greene County on Highway 258 North; the suspect later crashed on Dixon Farm Road and was hospitalized with serious injuries.
- The reason for the pursuit has not been released, and the deputy’s name has not been released.
- Farmville police are handling the suspect’s charges, and the North Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating both crashes.
SNOW HILL, N.C. — A Greene County sheriff’s deputy was killed Thursday night when a patrol car went out of control during a pursuit in eastern North Carolina, according to the Greene County Sheriff’s Office and the Charlotte Observer.
The crash happened just before 8:30 p.m. in the Snow Hill area, about 70 miles southeast of downtown Raleigh. The sheriff’s office said deputies went to help Farmville police with a vehicle pursuit that entered the county from Farmville on Highway 258 North. One deputy caught up with the suspect vehicle near Highway 258 and Highway 123. A second deputy, traveling on Highway 258 north of the Highway 13 intersection and trying to catch up, lost control of the patrol car and was fatally injured.
The suspect later crashed on Dixon Farm Road and was hospitalized with serious injuries, the sheriff’s office said. Investigators have not said why the suspect was being pursued. The deputy’s name has not been released.
Farmville police are handling the charges related to the pursuit, and the North Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating both crashes, the sheriff’s office said.