Officers Involved in Andrew Brown Jr. Shooting Identified

Pasquotank County Sheriff, Tommy Wooten II has released the names of the officers involved in the Andrew Brown Jr. shooting last week.

Pasquotank County Sheriff, Tommy Wooten II has released the names of the officers involved in the Andrew Brown Jr. shooting last week. Seven deputies were placed on administrative leave following the shooting and four of them have been reinstated. Wooten said three of the deputies fired their weapons. They are identified as Investigator Daniel Meads, Deputy Robert Morgan and Corporal Aaron Lewellyn. They will remain on leave during the investigation. The other four officers are Lieutenant Steven Judd, Sergeant Michael Swindell, Sergeant Kenneth Bishop and Sergeant Joel Lunsford.
Wooten said “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 deserved to be reinstated to active duty.” Brown was shot as he was driving away from officers while they responded to a drug warrant at his home. Brown’s family is calling the shooting an ‘execution’ after viewing a 20 second clip of body camera footage. On Wednesday, a judge refused to make that footage public for 30 to 40 days.