Deputy Sheriff Julian Lee Powers, Jr.

Julian Lee Powers, Jr.

Deputy Julian Powers was shot and killed while he and several members of his department searched for a vagrant who had been stealing food from homes and was wanted for questioning in the shooting of a local farmer.

As they were walking through a wheatfield, Deputy Powers came upon the suspect who was laying down in the field. The man shot him in the chest with a 12 gauge shotgun. The suspect was apprehended after he was shot and wounded by another deputy in a wooded area near Swann Station Road.

The 35-year-old suspect was declared insane and committed at the state mental institution in Goldsboro.