The man plunged in front of a fatal shooting at NC deputy with the bottle, sheriff says :: Wral.com

A man who was killed by a Vance County deputy at the weekend threatened the MP, said Curtis Brame, Sheriff of Vance County, on Monday.

Johnny Mayfield repeatedly told the MP: “I will kill you” and, according to Brame, approached a broken glass.

The MP, who is transferred to the administrative vacation, shot Mayfield in Henderson at 12 noon. According to Body Camera and the Dash camera video, the MP that loses his foot when Mayfield approached a broken glass bottle in his hand.

According to Brame, Mayfield had no other weapons on him.

Brame said the deputy shot Mayfield and applied for emergency aid immediately afterwards.

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is examining the shootout.

Brame said that the deputy who was alone stopped Mayfield because he accelerated from us on the side. 1. Brame did not have the information about how quickly Mayfield drove.

According to Brame, the member of the member has worked for the Sheriff of the Vance County's office since 2023. Brame said that the MP had nothing in his file about disciplinary measures before shooting on Saturday.

“He is young,” said Brame about the deputy. “He will need our prayers and our thoughts and our consolation.

“I can't imagine what he is going through. This is my 41st year in law enforcement. I never had to shoot someone. I pray to God that I don't have to. Don't get me wrong, I have condolences for the family and their loss of their beloved people, but I … I have to take care of my MPs and my officers. “

Mayfield had outstanding arrest warrants for his arrest, including bodily harm with a fatal weapon with a bond of 10,000 US dollars and ordering a hidden weapon with a bond of $ 5,000.

Brame also said that Mayfield had a bond of $ 185,000 for charges in Vance County: robbery with a dangerous weapon, the robbery with a dangerous weapon and possession of a stolen firearm.

Brame also said Mayfield pending in Warren County because of theft of a motor vehicle and with a fatal weapon with the intention of killing and causing serious injuries.

Mae Bullock, who said Mayfield was her friend, said to WRAL News that she was in the seventh month pregnant and Mayfield fell to the hospital after she had a high risk in connection with her pregnancy.

“We were stopped in the end and the police gave the name of my child,” she said. “It came back to have an arrest warrant against his arrest.”

According to Bullock, Mayfield told the deputy that he had to take his girlfriend to the hospital and he did not get out of the car.

“He ran away,” said Bullock. “[They] Chased him and when he came back, he tried to intertw him. I said [them] Not because I'm pregnant. Next, my friend got into the car and fled on. “

Brame said the deputy had club in his hands, but did not use it.

Finally, Brame said that Mayfield got back into the car and left the woman on the side of the road. It led to a second foot huntPresent And Brame said Mayfield crashed the MP with the broken glass bottle before he was shot.

On Monday, Brame did not identify the deputy involved.

A person who witnessed the shootout said she heard the shots from her house.

“We heard three shots,” she said. “The only thing we saw was the guy and the officer. I didn't think he was alive when I saw him. He had no sound, not even how he was in pain.”

Bullock said Wral News that the authorities would not let them go to the hospital to say goodbye to their child's friend and father.

“They had no reason to shoot him to run, they could have drifted,” said Bullock.