Last Modified: Monday, September 7, 2009 at 1:56 a.m.
Supply | A 49-year-old man was shot and killed during an altercation with a Brunswick County sheriff’s deputy Sunday night, officials said.
The shooting occurred when Deputy Bradley Hardee responded to a call about a domestic dispute at 2730 Captains Wheel Ave. SW in Supply, according to a statement from Sheriff John Ingram.
The man who was killed, Alton Lawrence Walters, lived at the residence where the shooting occurred. At the scene, Ingram declined to release specifics about the case, saying it is an ongoing investigation. Authorities say the case is being handled by the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation.
Online court records show Walters’ criminal record includes a 2000 felony conviction for indecent liberties with a child.
At 9:45 p.m., about two hours after the shooting, deputies had blocked off Captains Wheel Avenue to all but residents of that street.
When the road reopened, yellow tape surrounded a single-story gray home with black shutters. Two large lights illuminated the front yard. Authorities set up a canopy in the street and also had a mobile command unit at the scene.
A mile or so away, Walters’ father, 77-year-old Alton George Walters, sat in the living room of his home listening to a police scanner, trying to learn exactly what happened.
In the back room, his wife, Doris, telephoned their daughter.
The couple had been to Captains Wheel Avenue earlier, but were not allowed near the shooting scene..
They’d gone to the area after their son’s neighbors had told them about the shooting.
While there, Walters said, an investigator with District Attorney Rex Gore’s office told them their son had been shot and killed, but would not provide them any other details about the shooting.
The investigator said the body was going to Jacksonville for an autopsy and suggested they begin preparing for a funeral, Walters said.
After that, Walters said he returned home frustrated and upset.
He sat in his living room staring at the couch where he said his son had been sitting hours earlier.
Alton George Walters said his son, who worked as a landscaper, was in a good health and lived with his girlfriend at the house where the shooting occurred.
Walters said he planned to call the sheriff’s office on Monday and again try to learn what happened.
“They didn’t have to shoot that boy to put him in a police car,” Walters said. “They got Tasers, they got black-jacks, they got sticks, so why did you have to kill him?”
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