A North Carolina real estate agent could be killed as punishment for allegedly murdering three people in an apparent rampage, prosecutors claim.

David Lever, 55, stands charged with three counts of murder over the deaths of Enrique Reyes and married couple Anthony and Paula Gribble.

The slayings occurred in January of this year. Pitt County prosecutors announced their intention this week to seek the death penalty for Lever, according to Greenville-based NBC affiliate WITN .

On the afternoon of Jan. 10, Reyes came home from buying groceries. Area surveillance cameras showed Lever, a neighbor of the 64-year-old man in Greenville, walking to and from Reyes' home, Pitt County Sheriff Paula Dance said.

The two men had no known connection other than living on the same street, as Law&Crime re

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