CLEMMONS, N.C. (AP) - A chase that led to a fatal shooting involving a deputy is connected to the discovery of a body found at a home, a North Carolina sheriff’s office said.
Winston-Salem police said the body of Toni Renee Handy, 46, was found Tuesday evening at her home. Winston-Salem police had reported Handy missing just after midnight Tuesday, the Winston-Salem Journal reported.
In the afternoon, a sheriff’s deputy spotted Handy’s pickup truck, which had been reported stolen. Authorities say Christopher Joel Mock, 45, led deputies on a chase, driving through a shopping center parking lot and crashing into another truck before he was shot. A sheriff’s spokeswoman said a gun was found at the scene.
First responders took Mock to the hospital, and he was declared dead in the ambulance before he was revived at the hospital, Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough said. Mock underwent surgery, but died at the hospital, the sheriff’s office said.
The N.C. State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting, which is standard when a law enforcement officer is involved, to determine if use of force was lawful. The deputies involved are on administrative leave until the SBI investigation is complete.
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