The investigations of two shootings involving Fayetteville police officers continue and the officers have returned to work, authorities say. An undercover officer shot Claybrook Adams outside a drugstore at Raeford Road and Bingham Drive on Sept. 24; two officers shot Renauld Curtis on Oct. 29 in the parking lot of an apartment complex off Murchison Road. The shootings happened during undercover drug operations. Police said the men hit officers with their vehicles. Adams is 25 and lives in the 900 block of Country Club Drive. Curtis is 23 and lives in the 4300 block of Coolidge Street. [continues 362 words]
A judge ruled Thursday that there was no probable cause for a felonious assault charge against a man who was shot by a police officer in September. But District Attorney Ed Grannis said he had not dismissed the case against the man, Claybrook Adams, and had not decided how he would proceed. The ruling was made by District Court Judge John S. Hair Jr. Adams, 25, was shot Sept. 24 during an undercover drug operation at a pharmacy at Raeford Road and Bingham Drive. [continues 433 words]
Fayetteville police officers shot a man late Wednesday night during an undercover drug investigation, Lt. Katherine Bryant said. Officers were attempting to arrest the man about 11 p.m. in a parking lot of the Mount Sinai Homes at Murchison Road and Blue Street. Bryant said she did not know exactly what happened, but said that two officers fired. The man was shot twice. At some point, he tried to get away in his car. He drove out of the parking lot onto Blue Street, hit a police officer's car, bumped a curb and landed in a creek. Police took the man out of his car and sent him to the hospital. [continues 98 words]
