RALEIGH, North Carolina – Federal officials say a man has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death of a special deputy U.S. marshal.
The Department of Justice says 21-year-old Lamont Deshawn Byrd pleaded guilty in federal court in Raleigh on Monday in connection with the death of Warren Lewis III.
Lewis was an investigator with the Nash County Sheriff’s Office who was also a sworn special deputy U.S. marshal assigned to the Eastern North Carolina Regional Fugitive Task Force.
