Michael Puckett, the man suspected of killing a Carroll County, Virginia, sheriff’s deputy Friday night was captured in North Carolina on Sunday around 8:30 p.m.
Breitbart News reported that two Carroll County Sheriff’s deputies went to Puckett’s house Friday night to conduct a welfare check. Upon the deputies’ arrival, Puckett allegedly opened fire on them, killing one deputy and wounding another.
Puckett then fled the scene and manhunt was launched.
On Sunday night, he was captured by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, according to WDBJ.
Puckett had a handgun on his person when he was apprehended but he did not resist. The house in which he was captured was roughly three miles from where he allegedly shot and killed Carroll County deputy Logan Utt.
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