Overview
- Deputies found 68-year-old Connie Linen dead in her Raeford home during a wellness check on Thursday morning.
- Hoke County detectives identified her 13-year-old grandson as the suspect and completed paperwork to charge him with first-degree murder.
- Lee County deputies later located the boy behind an abandoned mobile home near Cameron after finding a vehicle belonging to Linen.
- Authorities say he fled, grabbed a two-by-four from a yard, charged at a deputy, and was shot; he died at the scene.
- Officials released limited additional details; the Lee County release listed the teen at 5'11" and 150 pounds, and sheriffs described the case as tragic.