Updated: 1:55 PM EST January 26, 2021
HYDE COUNTY, N.C. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission says that a man was shot and killed while duck hunting in coastal Hyde County.
The Charlotte Observer reported Tuesday that the commission said that Brandon Marshall was shot by a member of his hunting party.
The incident remains under investigation.
Officials said that a 911 call was made and first responders had attempted life-saving measures.
Marshall was from the Englehard, a coastal community on the Pamlico Sound. He was known as an advocate for hunting and hunting safety.
A group called North Carolina Ducks Unlimited said in a statement that Marshall was a strong conservationist, pillar in the community and an amazing husband and father.
Ex officer charged with selling testosterone
CLAYTON â A former police officer who was once honored as his department s âofficer of the yearâ has been charged with making and selling a steroid that promotes muscle growth, according to court documents.
Former Clayton Police Officer Owen Phillips, 40, was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday on charges of possession with intent to manufacture, sell and deliver testosterone; sale and delivery of testosterone; and manufacture of testosterone, the documents stated.
Prosecutors said Phillips made and sold testosterone between April and July 2020.
The Johnston County District Attorney and the Clayton Police Departmentâs then-chief asked the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation in August to review allegations of failure or neglect to perform official duties by Philips and his possible use and sale of a schedule three controlled substance, bureau spokeswoman Angie Grube wrote in an email to The News & Observer.
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Updated: 10:38 PM EST Jan 14, 2021 The Associated Press A species of sea turtle that is rarely seen on North Carolina’s Outer Banks has been found dead in a Frisco marsh near the Pamlico Sound.The Virginian-Pilot reported Tuesday that biologists have so far been unable to find a cause of death of the leatherback sea turtle.Click the video player above for headlines from WXII 12 News.The creature weighed upwards of 500 pounds. And biologists solicited the help of a construction company’s crane to lift the dead animal onto a barge and take it in for a necropsy.Biologists with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission and the National Park Service found no obvious cause of death. The investigation revealed no physical injuries, plastics in the intestines or major parasites. But the animal’s organs suggested the animal was under physiological stress. Leatherback sea turtles are especially rare on the Outer Banks and are typically not bothered by cold
A species of sea turtle that is rarely seen on North Carolina's Outer Banks has been found dead in a Frisco marsh near the Pamlico Sound. The creature weighed upwards of 500 pounds.