3/20 • North Carolina

Murder suspect in custody after stand-off in Greenville

By: Matthew Hinson | Published on March 20, 2023

GREENVILLE, Pitt County — A stand-off with law enforcement in Pitt County ended with the arrest of a Florida man wanted by the FBI for the murder of a child.

NewsChannel 12 was on the scene in Greenville Monday afternoon where it all happened.

It was a stand-off that lasted for hours on Buckingham Drive in Greenville where the suspect, Claude Edsel Brooks Jr., wanted for the first-degree murder of an 8-month-old child in 2019, had barricaded himself into a home.

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