Fatal shooting at Pitt-Greenville Airport NC, one in custody
GREENVILLE, N.C. December 17 2018 Greenville police officers responded to a report of shots fired outside of the main entrance to the Pitt-Greenville Airport terminal around 6:00 a.m. Sunday, according to a press release.
Once on scene, officers found a man with gunshot wounds. The victim, Joseph Pate, 52, of Beaufort County died at the scene, Greenville Police said.
Pate had been planning to leave on a 7 a.m. American Airlines flight to Charlotte, PVG Airport Director Betty Stansbury said.
Both the 7 a.m. flight and an 11 a.m. flight out of PVG was cancelled.
Officers arrested one suspect in connection to the deadly shooting. John Reid, 49, of Grimesland, has been taken into custody and charged with First Degree Murder. He is currently being held in the Pitt County Detention Center under no bond.
Pate and Reid knew each other, and there is no ongoing threat to the public, officials said.
The airport is now open for business and normal operations will resume.
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