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Via WRAL.com:

An Archdale police officer was justified in shooting a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student during an August traffic stop and won’t face criminal charges in his death, Randolph County District Attorney Garland Yates said Friday.

Courtland Smith, 21, of Houston, was killed by Officer J.P. Flinchum during a confrontation along southbound Interstate 85 in Randolph County on Aug. 23. An autopsy determined he was shot four times.

In a 911 call Smith made as he sped along the highway, he told a dispatcher that he was drunk, had a 9-mm handgun and was trying to kill himself.

Flinchum and another officer located Smith’s Toyota 4Runner and pulled him over near Hopewell Church Road in northeast Randolph County at about 5 a.m.