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Omaha Steve

(107,143 posts)
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 10:43 PM 10 hrs ago

Police: Deadly shooting in North Carolina was 'highly premeditated' and location was 'targeted'

Source: AP

Updated 2:50 PM CDT, September 28, 2025

SOUTHPORT, N.C. (AP) — A mass shooting that shattered the evening tranquility of a picturesque, seaside town in North Carolina was a “highly premeditated” attack that left three people dead and five injured, police said Sunday. The suspect who allegedly carried out the attack on a waterfront bar was in custody.

Nigel Edge, 40, of Oak Island is accused of opening fire Saturday night from a boat into a crowd gathered at the American Fish Company in Southport, a historic port town about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Wilmington, Police Chief Todd Coring said.

At a press conference Sunday, Coring said the location was “targeted,” but he did not elaborate.

Authorities said Edge piloted a small boat close to shore, which was lined with bars and restaurants, stopped briefly and fired. He then sped away.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-shooting-attack-waterfront-194ad399bbdab604c799c7f60f63ed8c

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Police: Deadly shooting in North Carolina was 'highly premeditated' and location was 'targeted' (Original Post) Omaha Steve 10 hrs ago OP
War time brain injury. He has been behaving erratically for years BlueWaveNeverEnd 10 hrs ago #1
This guy seems to be very seriously mentally ill. Ocelot II 10 hrs ago #2
That's the kicker, isn't it? tanyev 9 hrs ago #3
But of course he has guns. yardwork 30 min ago #8
Another asshole with a big, ubly gun Warpy 8 hrs ago #4
More sacrificed for 2nd amendment rights Old Crank 7 hrs ago #5
Yes, he would've been. raccoon 3 hrs ago #6
Have vacationed there (Oak Island) many times. Very, well, white. twodogsbarking 50 min ago #7

Ocelot II

(127,439 posts)
2. This guy seems to be very seriously mentally ill.
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 11:12 PM
10 hrs ago

He recently filed a lawsuit (which was quickly dismissed, for obvious reasons) alleging all manner of bizarre conspiracies: As the court explained in the order dismissing the case:

...Plaintiff alleges a wide-ranging conspiracy among the various defendants originating with, inter alia, the “Iraq War,” the “Abu Ghraib Scandal,” the “Epstein Pedophile Ring,” and “Attacks on 9/11.” Plaintiff suggests numerous misdeeds, including crimes against humanity, human trafficking, attempted murder, hate crime, pedophilia, falsifying a birth certificate, kidnapping, drugging, slander, torture, strangulation, medical malpractice, vandalism, poisoning, and harassment. Plaintiff alleges a “Hate Crime (LGBQT toward a straight man(me)) who was raised as a straight male for (LGBTQ) purposes in an illegal pedophile sex ring.” (Id. at 2). He further alleges defendants “William and Sandra DeBevoise are LGBQT White Supremacist Pedophiles directly responsible for” a variety of wrongs including: “Falsifying Birth Certificate for a feral child,” “kidnapping and drugging (Involuntary Intoxication) (with growth hormone as a child) the plaintiff for their monetary gain in the film industry,” and “Attempting to turn the plaintiff into a ‘Home Grown Terrorist (Slander)’.” Additionally, the complaint alleges defendant officer McCormick “escorted [plaintiff] to people’s houses to install fans, that in LGBQT language were all fans of pedophilia developed by the Clarkstown Police Department working with Epstein.”

Under the heading “Criminal Investigative Division, Camp Lejeune, NC (Sean Mandall),” plaintiff alleges, inter alia: The Plaintiff did not even know existed until a couple years ago, all while the Plaintiff has been saying something was wrong since surviving my wounds from Iraq; where on the most official mission of my career the U.S. Marine Corp murdered the other man (Corpsman) and attempted to murder me as a (Hate Crime) locally and lead by the “Abu Ghraib Scandal” where the U.S. Government was performing a genocide against straight men by the LGBQT Community running the prison and murdering, torturing/trafficking Iraqi prisoners to fight (Id.). He further states “I only survived because they thought I was dead,” and “I was sent home as a drug mule (in my abdomen) in a body bag and branded with a letter ‘A’ on my head.” (Id.). Under the heading “Federal Bureau of Investigation,” plaintiff alleges, inter alia, “As observed on my false birth certificate I was born in Suffern NY which Translates to a U.S. Firm for NE, the plaintiff is a NE,” “the Plaintiff is still being trafficked by corrupt authorities taking bribes,” and “These wrongdoings are obvious once LGBQT language is discovered and motive uncovered.”

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/north-carolina/ncedce/7:2024cv01086/214391/93/

He appealed the dismissal and the dismissal was upheld by the appellate court in June.

But the GOP and Trump think it's just fine for mentally ill people to have guns.

tanyev

(47,898 posts)
3. That's the kicker, isn't it?
Sun Sep 28, 2025, 11:19 PM
9 hrs ago

They want to blame lots of mass shootings on mental illness, but they don’t want to anything to help people with mental illness and they SURE don’t want to do one damn thing to make it harder for someone with mental illness to get their hands on a gun.

Warpy

(113,955 posts)
4. Another asshole with a big, ubly gun
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 12:41 AM
8 hrs ago

who thought shooting a bunch of people he likely didn't even know would make him feel better.

Old Crank

(6,259 posts)
5. More sacrificed for 2nd amendment rights
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 01:44 AM
7 hrs ago

Charlie would have been proud.

GOP are killing us, literally.

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