BREAKING NEWS: North Carolina deputies and FBI have ‘active warrants’ and are seeking suspects for power station gun attack that left 45,000 in the dark
- Moore County Sheriff’s Office and Bureau agents announced they have ‘active warrants’ and are looking to find a ‘suspect or suspects’
- Saturday’s gun attack at a substation in Moore County, North Carolina, left 45,000 without power
The FBI and sheriff’s deputies now have ‘active warrants’ out over a power station gun attack that left 45,000 without power.
Moore County Sheriff’s Office are looking to find a suspect or suspects in connection to Saturday’s attack – which left 45,000 people in North Carolina without power.
No identities for possible suspects have been given, and no motives have been shared.
It was initially claimed online that the attack may have been to prevent a local drag queen story hour from taking place, but no evidence has emerged to support that claim.
A Duke Energy employee works to repair the damage at the Moore County substation in North Carolina
In total, at least seven attacks have been recorded in the US in recent weeks.
Two of the recent attacks occurred in Portland – targeting their electrical substations in a ‘pre-meditated’ ambush, officials said.
Officials in Oregon are still probing the Thanksgiving electrical attacks at Portland General Electric and Bonneville Power Administration in Clackamas County.
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