Black man shot and killed by sheriff’s deputy in North Carolina

Eyewitness says Andrew Brown was shot while he tried to drive away from police in Elizabeth City, spurring angry protests

A sheriff's deputy in North Carolina has shot and killed a black man while serving a search warrant, authorities said, raising tensions over policing in the wake of the Derek Chauvin trial and Ma'Khia Bryant killing.

The deputy in Elizabeth City, close to the Atlantic coast, was placed on leave pending a review by the state bureau of investigation, Pasquotank county sheriff Tommy Wooten said at a news conference on Wednesday.