Overview
- Deputies found 68-year-old Connie Linen unresponsive during a wellness check at her Raeford home, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Investigators identified Linen’s 13-year-old grandson as the suspect and completed secured-custody paperwork charging him with first-degree murder.
- Lee County deputies located the teen behind an abandoned mobile home in the Cameron area, where he was in a vehicle belonging to his grandmother.
- Authorities say the boy ran, grabbed a two-by-four during the pursuit, then charged at a deputy, who shot him; the teen died at the scene.
- The State Bureau of Investigation is conducting the standard review of the shooting, and multiple county agencies remain involved in the case.