North Carolina deputy killed; search on for shooter

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina are trying to determine who fired the shots that killed a sheriff’s deputy who stopped along a dark highway. Wake County Sheriff Gerald Baker said Friday that 48-year-old Deputy Ned Byrd was fatally wounded late Thursday on a dark section of road about a quarter mile from a gas station. Byrd had been with the sheriff’s office for 13 years. Authorities say they’re trying to learn why Byrd stopped there as they search for “the perpetrator or perpetrators.” Several North Carolina sheriff’s deputies have been shot recently, including Wayne County Sheriff’s Sgt. Matthew Fishman, who was killed last week.