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A driver killed while exchanging shots<\/a> with a deputy had allegedly been shooting at the town\u2019s police station minutes earlier, according to investigators in eastern North Carolina.<\/p>\n

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The gunfight happened just before 1 a.m. Tuesday in Elizabethtown, and the driver has been identified as 50-year-old Michael Bynum Horne Jr., of White Oak, the Bladen County Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a May 12 news release.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt approximately 12:30 a.m., the Bladen County Communication Center received a call from a concerned citizen stating she saw a white colored Honda Accord in front of the Elizabethtown Police Department, shooting at the department,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt … 12:49 a.m., a deputy with the Bladen County Sheriff\u2019s Office conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle matching the description at N.C. 53 and Saw Mill Lane. A deputy … asked the male to step out of the vehicle. The male fled down Saw Mill Lane in his vehicle and turned around, and as he was coming out … fired multiple shots at the deputy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The deputy returned fire, hitting the driver multiple times, the sheriff\u2019s office said. The driver fled the scene and was located at a nearby home on N.C. 53 West, officials said.<\/p>\n

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Deputies performed life-saving measures on the man, but he died after being taken to a hospital, officials said.<\/p>\n

Details of a motive have not been released.<\/p>\n

The N.C. State Bureau of Investigation will lead an investigation into the incident, which is standard procedure in officer-involved shootings.<\/p>\n

The identity of the deputy who fired the fatal shots has not been released. Investigators did not report the deputy was injured.<\/p>\n

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Elizabethtown is about a 95-mile drive south from downtown Raleigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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