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Man Shot, Killed in Efland Identified; Investigation Ongoing
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to investigate a fatal shooting that occurred in Efland on Thursday.
A release from the sheriff’s office said deputies received a call about a gunshot on Alice Miller Road shortly before 5 p.m. Upon arrival, they found 29-year old Maurio Cates with a single gunshot wound to the abdomen.
The sheriff’s office said Cates later died after being transported to Duke Hospital.
Officials interviewed a person of interest Thursday evening. Per a press release on Friday, Cates and the person who shot him were known to each other and there is currently no risk to the community.
Despite dragging on for three years, the coronial inquest into the Wiradjuri, Wirangu and Kookatha man's death is still not providing any answers or closure for his family.
Lawyers for the guards questioned MacPherson about whether he could have misunderstood.
MacPherson, however, insisted the words had âstuck in his mindâ over the past five years and that he read the conversation as a direction.
He also said that when Chapman had asked another guard about the physical status of Morrison after he had learned he was hospitalised, his tone lacked empathy.
In a statement given to police earlier this month partially read out in the inquest, MacPherson had recalled that Chapman had asked, âheâs not dead is he?â and said the comment âseemed to be said in frustration of the scrutiny and paperwork that a fatality would bringâ.
Guard refuses to answer questions at inquest A guard who was inside a prison van before a prisoner was pulled out unresponsive has refused to answer questions at an inquest into the man’s death.
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Subscriber only Corrections officers inside a prison van with a man before he was pulled out unresponsive are refusing to answer questions because they do not want to cooperate with an inquest into the man s death, a court has heard. Officers who transported Wayne Fella Morrison have been ordered to give evidence at a coronial inquest, but are allowed to claim privilege on a question-by-question basis to avoid self-incrimination.