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The New Hanover County Sheriff's Office has threatened to fire deputies selling raffle tickets for a Sony PlayStation 3 to benefit their fired co-worker who fatally shot an unarmed teenager accused of stealing the same type of video game system.

The public is not likely anytime soon to learn the official account of how or why a New Hanover County sheriff's deputy killed an unarmed college student two weeks ago.

A college student lay wounded, and a deputy cried out in anguish over his decision to shoot.

Tactics, team size second-guessed.

A former sheriff's deputy who shot a Durham teen to death during a raid this month might still be charged with a crime, says Ben David, the New Hanover County district attorney.

Ben David faces perhaps the biggest decision of his short career as New Hanover and Pender counties' district attorney. David, 36, could say today whether he will try again to indict the sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a Wilmington college student in a raid Dec. 1.

Jury didn't indict deputy in shooting.

The foreman says Tuesday that he had marked the wrong box on a document the day before, mistakenly accusing former deputy Christopher Long, left, of second-degree murder in the Dec. 1 shooting of Peyton Strickland, a student from Durham. Superior Court Judge Ernest Fullwood reversed the charge.

A deputy mistook the hammering of a battering ram for the blast of a gun, then fired the shots that killed Peyton Strickland, a prosecutor said in court Monday. Three days after the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office fired Christopher Long, 34, a grand jury indicted him on a charge of second-degree murder.

The public could learn as early as today what prompted three heavily armed deputies to fire into the home of Peyton Strickland during a Dec. 1 raid that left the teenager dead.

Family and friends are trying to figure out how Peyton Strickland, a boy they say is a peacemaker, could have had such trouble land on his doorstep.

Durham teen was shot during raid.

One of the New Hanover County deputies thought to have shot and killed college student Peyton Strickland in a police raid last week shot two teenage drug dealers five years ago during a confrontational traffic stop.

New Hanover County Sheriff Sid Causey said Wednesday that he doesn't know yet whether three deputies followed proper procedures when they shot and killed Peyton Strickland, left, a Cape Fear Community College student from Durham.