Man killed in officer-involved shooting in Albemarle

ALBEMARLE, N.C.,None — Two Albermarle police officers shot and killed a man after police say he aimed a gun at them.

Police said Officer John Eddins, an 11-year veteran of the Albemarle Police Department, and Officer George Frazee, a 16-year veteran of the Albemarle Police Department, have been put on administrative leave according to standard procedure.

Officials with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation are investigating what happened.

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Neighbors said there was chaos even before police fired their weapons.

Mary Whitley woke up to a banging on her bedroom window just before 6 a.m. She said she saw 48-year-old Mark Coggins threatening her.

"He was screaming, 'I will be back!' and then he turned and was walking off," she said, "but I could still hear him talking."

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She said she knew he was heading down the road to the home of his ex-girlfriend, Marsha Dick.

Whitley said she had encouraged Dick to take out a restraining order against him, so she called her friend right away.

"I said, 'Marsha, lock your doors, don't go out, don't go to your door,'" she said. "I said, 'Mark's on his way down there.'"

A police officer beat him there.

Eyewitness News discovered Stanly County 911 had received a call about a man firing shots into a garbage can and responded to the neighborhood.

"I could just hear him talking loudly with a police officer," Marsha Dick said of her ex-boyfriend, who was outside her home on Oak Street.

Then she said she heard several shots.

"I was scared," Dick said. "I was scared for me and my son."

Police said the two officers shot and killed Coggins after they asked him repeatedly to put down his weapon, and he responded by aiming it at them.

The officers were not hurt.

Dick said Coggins had "personal issues" but she never dreamed it would end like this.

"It's just a bad, bad, terrible awful situation," Dick said. "I feel terrible for his family."

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