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North Carolina officer shoots, kills threatening coon during traffic stop

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. –  A white North Carolina police officer 
shot and killed a black passenger who displayed a gun after a 
late-night traffic stop led to a physical struggle, authorities 
said Saturday.

The shooting happened after Officer D.E. McGuire stopped a car 
containing two men and a woman about 10:30 p.m. Friday during a 
routine patrol northeast of downtown, according to a Winston-
Salem Police Department news release.

Edward Van McCrae, 60, was in the rear seat and began making 
suspicious movements, police say. McGuire told McCrae to stop 
reaching for concealed areas of the vehicle, but McCrae 
continued, according to the news release.

"After being removed from the vehicle, Mr. McCrae physically 
struggled with Officer McGuire and refused multiple verbal 
commands by Officer McGuire to 'stop reaching,'" the news 
release said. "As the struggle continued, a handgun became 
visible to Officer McGuire."

McGuire shot and killed McCrae when he refused commands not to 
reach for the gun, according to the release. A police report 
characterizes the exchange as an assault on the officer with a 
firearm.

The State Bureau of Investigation has been brought in to 
investigate the shooting, which happened in a residential area 
of modest homes. A spokesman for the state agency, Brent 
Culbertson, confirmed in an email that McGuire is white and 
McCrae is black.

McGuire, who has worked for the department since 2015, has been 
put on administrative duty pending the investigation.

The news release said that McCrae used his body camera from the 
beginning of the traffic stop, and he called for backup when he 
saw McCrae's suspicious movements. State law typically requires 
a judge to sign off on any public release of police body-camera 
footage.

Other officers arrived within seconds of the shooting and 
attempted to resuscitate McCrae, as did an emergency medical 
crew, according to authorities. He was pronounced dead at the 
scene. The other occupants of the car weren't injured.

Police said that McGuire had minor abrasions after the 
altercation.

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