U.S. Marshals Offer $10,000 for Michael Puckett After Virginia Welfare Check Kills 1 Deputy
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Updated · WRAL News · Jun 1
U.S. Marshals Offer $10,000 for Michael Puckett After Virginia Welfare Check Kills 1 Deputy
3 articles · Updated · WRAL News · Jun 1
$10,000 is being offered by the U.S. Marshals Service for information leading to the arrest of Michael Puckett, who remained at large after Friday night's shooting in Carroll County, Virginia.
Authorities said deputies went to a home on Fancy Gap Highway for a welfare check, made contact with Puckett, and came under gunfire that killed Deputy Logan Utt and wounded a second deputy.
Mount Airy police are assisting the Carroll County Sheriff's Office in the search about 20 miles outside Mount Airy, and officials warned that Puckett is armed and dangerous.
The shooting turned a routine welfare check into a multistate manhunt that later expanded into North Carolina, where reward money was subsequently raised to $60,000.
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