--- title: Police Identify North Carolina Cop Who Killed Drug Suspect description: D.C. Twiddy was placed on administrative duty canonical: https://time.com/4243178/north-carolina-cop-kill-suspect/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-01T17:16:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:30:35.038Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Police Identify North Carolina Officer Who Fatally Shot Drug Suspect og:description: D.C. Twiddy was placed on administrative duty og:url: https://time.com/4243178/north-carolina-cop-kill-suspect/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5b40755e7afc6fd/69887fc3a988ca15b56b6ce7/north-carolina-shooting.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Officer Shooting North Carolina og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Police Identify North Carolina Officer Who Fatally Shot Drug Suspect twitter:description: D.C. Twiddy was placed on administrative duty twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5b40755e7afc6fd/69887fc3a988ca15b56b6ce7/north-carolina-shooting.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Police Identify North Carolina Officer Who Fatally Shot Drug Suspect by [Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News Mar 1, 2016 5:16 PM CUT  Police gather near the scene of a fatal shooting in Raleigh, NC on Feb. 29, 2016. Police gather near the scene of a fatal shooting in Raleigh, NC on Feb. 29, 2016.Gerry Broome—AP by [Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News Mar 1, 2016 5:16 PM CUT Police have released the identity of a North Carolina police officer who shot and killed a drug suspect during a foot chase Monday. Raleigh officer D.C. Twiddy, 29, who has been with the city’s police department for six years, was placed on administrative duty as the state investigates the deadly shooting, police said. Twiddy had been pursuing a man wanted on a felony drug charge on Monday afternoon when he fired at the suspect and killed him, police said in a statement. A gun was found “in close proximity” to the suspect, Chief of Police Cassandra Deck-Brown said Monday. [_Read the rest of this story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/d-c-twiddy-id-d-raleigh-north-carolina-cop-who-n528976?cid=par-time%5F20160301 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4243178/north-carolina-cop-kill-suspect/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4243178/north-carolina-cop-kill-suspect/"},"headline":"Police Identify North Carolina Officer Who Fatally Shot Drug Suspect","datePublished":"2016-03-01T17:16:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:30:35.038Z","description":"D.C. Twiddy was placed on administrative duty","url":"https://time.com/4243178/north-carolina-cop-kill-suspect/","keywords":["Crime","Courts","North Carolina","black lives matter"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5b40755e7afc6fd/69887fc3a988ca15b56b6ce7/north-carolina-shooting.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5b40755e7afc6fd/69887fc3a988ca15b56b6ce7/north-carolina-shooting.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Officer Shooting North Carolina","caption":"Officer Shooting North Carolina","creditText":"Gerry Broome—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4243178/north-carolina-cop-kill-suspect/","name":"Police Identify North Carolina Officer Who Fatally Shot Drug Suspect"}}]}] ```