North Carolina state trooper charged with murder of police captain

A North Carolina state highway patrol trooper has been charged with the murder of the captain of a county sheriff’s office.

Cumberland county Capt Adam Bean was shot and killed on 27 March at a home in the town of Hope Mills. A grand jury on Tuesday indicted Nekime Matu Oxendine, 44, with first-degree murder in Bean’s death, and a judge ordered him held without bond pending the outcome of the case.

The case represents an extremely rare instance of one law enforcement officer killing another. Research shows such cases are highly uncommon – and when they do occur, they are most