By Corinne Saunders
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated Monday afternoon to reflect law enforcement’s social media update.
MOYOCK — A 15-hour “barricaded” situation in Moyock that began Sunday afternoon “ended peacefully” in the early Monday morning hours, a Currituck County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said.
“The subject is in custody and the situation is cleared,” announced a Monday morning update of the Currituck County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook post on the situation.
One person was involved in the “barricaded” situation, which started around 1:30 p.m. Sunday and ended “without incident” at 4:30 a.m. Monday, Capt. Kevin McCord said in a Monday morning email.
The Currituck County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) in a Facebook post around 5 p.m. Sunday advised that the “Moyock Commons Business district is currently closed due to an ongoing situation being handled by the CCSO. Please stay away from the area and traffic is being rerouted around the area.”
The post described the situation as “an active scene with an armed barricaded subject at the Food Lion area,” and asked the public for patience with traffic control as “all available manpower” was directed to this situation.
Before this situation, around 12:45 p.m. on Oct. 6, the sheriff’s office “responded to a welfare check of a possible suicidal subject” on Tulls Creek Road in Moyock, but “the subject left in a camper” before officers arrived, a Monday afternoon update to the Facebook post said.
“A phone ping located the camper at the Food Lion parking lot,” the update continued. “Deputies went up to do a welfare check and found an armed subject who was irate and threatening bodily harm to himself and us.”
In the Monday afternoon post update, the sheriff’s office thanked Moyock fire and county Emergency Medical Services personnel, the dispatch center, North Carolina State Highway Patrol, Camden County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI’s Norfolk, Virginia, office “for assisting us with manpower and equipment that ultimately led to this positive outcome.”
An eyewitness told Outer Banks Insider on Sunday afternoon that law enforcement was focused on a white camper attached to a truck that was parked in the Food Lion parking lot.
A Currituck County Emergency Management Facebook post around 4 p.m. Sunday said that traffic was being rerouted as “Caratoke Highway is currently shut down between Sawyertown Road and Tulls Creek Road in Moyock.”
Dozens of people on social media discussed long traffic delays and reroutes around the main thoroughfare through Currituck County, U.S. 168/Caratoke Highway, stemming from the situation.
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