North Carolina state trooper allegedly guns down fellow cop involved in heated love triangle

A North Carolina state trooper allegedly gunned down a fellow cop after a years-long love triangle turned deadly, according to reports.Sgt.

Nekime Oxendine was indicted by a grand jury on first-degree murder charges on Wednesday for allegedly shooting Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office Cap.Adam Bean dead outside a Hope Mills home on March 27, WRAL reported.

Bean — a 42-year-old cop who worked with the sheriff’s department for nearly two decades — was allegedly shot by Oxendine in the front yard of a woman both cops had been romantically linked to, the outlet reported.When deputies arrived on scene, the woman, who is not named since she is a domestic violence victim, desperately tried to perform CPR on Bean, but he later succumbed to his injuries.The woman, who also works for the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office, dated Oxendine before entering a long-term relationship with Bean, according to text search warrants obtained by News & Observer.

Text messages spanning 2022 and 2023 revealed that while she was dating Oxendine, the longtime State Highway Patrol trooper repeatedly “questioned and accused her” of having a tryst with Bean, the outlet reported.“I see u have been talking to Adam!!! Best Wishes!!!” Oxendine texted the woman in July 2022, according to one search warrant.

“Better tell that [expletive] to get ready too!!!”She later dated Bean and lived with him until December 2025 — three months before he was fatally shot.Text messages showed that the woman reconciled with Oxendine in February and March of this year, the outlet reported.

The texts showed that Oxendine asked the woman whether Bean was more attractive than he was, and accused the officer of still having “the key” to her heart, a warrant said.The woman told Oxendine that she wanted to build a future with him, but the trooper continued to question her commitment to the relationship up until a week before the deadly shooting.

Bean then asked the woman to meet him ...