The County Sheriff in Pasquotank, North Carolina has been hit with a $30-million civil rights lawsuit following the police killing of Andrew Brown Jr. — the father of seven — earlier this year.
Joe Jurado of The Root reported that “Brown, 42, died on April 21 when his BMW was surrounded by deputies [from] the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office. The deputies opened fire when Brown moved his vehicle forward with one bullet striking Brown in the head, killing him. The lawsuit alleges that Brown died due to the ‘intentional and reckless disregard of his life,’ by the deputies.”
As we reported at the time, the deputies were attempting to serve Brown with an arrest warrant when the deadly shootout broke out.
