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Judge calls his sentencing of Virginia man who killed alligator ‘a little unusual; it’s an unusual case’
The Dare District Court judge who found a Virginia man guilty of illegally shooting to death an American alligator in Stumpy Point this spring said of his sentencing: “It was a little unusual; it’s an unusual case.”
Corinne Saunders
Jun 104 min read
In fatal pirate sword stabbing case, Stumpy Point man pleads guilty to second-degree murder
In Dare County Superior Court in Manteo, a Stumpy Point man recently pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the April 2024 fatal stabbing of a man by pirate sword.
Corinne Saunders
Nov 7, 20258 min read
Fatally stabbed by pirate sword in Stumpy Point: Dead man’s brother says state wants plea deal, but ‘7 years for killing somebody is not a lot of time’
The brother of a man fatally stabbed by a pirate sword last April in Stumpy Point said his family is “very frustrated” that the state keeps pushing them to accept a plea deal for the man accused of murder to serve a seven-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter instead.
Corinne Saunders
Sep 11, 20258 min read
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