North Carolina state trooper charged with murder of police captain

Nekime Matu Oxendine accused of first-degree murder of Adam Bean, shot and killed in apparent domestic dispute

A North Carolina state highway patrol trooper has been charged with the murder of the captain of a county sheriff's office.

Cumberland county Capt Adam Bean was shot and killed on 27 March at a home in the town of Hope Mills. A grand jury on Tuesday indicted Nekime Matu Oxendine, 44, with first-degree murder in Bean's death, and a judge ordered him held without bond pending the outcome of the case.