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Police exchanged fire with a man near UNC Wilmington on Jan. 26, 2024. No one was injured and police arrested the man. (Spectrum News 1/Jonathan Powell)

Special report: Map and database of 2023 police shootings in N.C.

By Charles Duncan North Carolina

PUBLISHED 3:25 PM ET Feb. 01, 2024 PUBLISHED 3:25 PM EST Feb. 01, 2024

Spectrum News 1 began tracking each police shooting in North Carolina on Jan. 1, 2023. The information in this database comes from law enforcement press releases and reports, lawsuits, the State Bureau of Investigations and Spectrum News 1's journalists across North Carolina.

For more on this project, read Special report: Documenting the 60 police shootings in N.C. in 2023.

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Spectrum News 1 fellow Sophia Fanning contributed to this database.