Four North Carolina deputies who were placed on administrative leave in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. have been permitted to return to duty after body-camera footage showed that they didn’t fire their guns, their sheriff said on Thursday. Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten confirmed that the three other deputies who were suspended following the April 21 shooting death of Andrew Brown Jr., 42, in Elizabeth City will remain on leave. Brown was killed after deputies carried out drug-related search and arrest warrants. The names of all seven deputies were also released by Wooten on Thursday. “After reviewing the preliminary conclusions of the independent investigators conducting the internal review, and after carefully examining the body camera footage of the incident with my own staff, it’s obvious that four of the deputies never fired their weapons and deserve to be reinstated to active duty,” Wooten said in …
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