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-Press Release, Vance County Sheriff’s Office
Sheriff Curtis R. Brame announced that on Friday, June 28, 2019, the Vance County Sheriff’s Office charged Patrick Watson, age 22 of 1262 Stewart Farm Road, Henderson, NC with the shooting death of Brittany Pruitt.
On June 10, 2019, Ms. Pruitt was found dead from a gunshot wound inside Watson’s residence.
The arrest is the result of a cooperative investigation that included the Vance County Sheriff’s Office, the NC State Bureau of Investigations, the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office and the District Attorney’s Office.
Watson is currently in the Vance County Jail without bond.