Dare Grand Jury indicts Avalon Pier shooting suspect

Henry Hargis charged with First-Degree Murder, Assault with a Deadly Weapon with Intent to Kill Inflicting Serious Injury

(File photo, credit: Will Thomas/WTKR)

Shortly after 11 a.m. on Monday, Aug.11, First Judicial District DA Jeff Cruden issued this statement about the indictment of the suspect in the July 31 shooting at Avalon Pier.

“District Attorney Jeff Cruden announced that the Dare County Grand Jury indicted Henry Lee Hargis of Kill Devil Hills this morning with one count of 1st degree murder in the death of Zane Hughes and one count of Assault with a Deadly Weapon with the Intent to Kill Inflicting Serious Injury in the shooting of the 15-year-old bystander.”

While Hargis, 16, was slated to appear in Dare County District C

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