The madman who “targeted” a crowded dockside restaurant in a “highly premeditated” mass shooting in North Carolina once identified himself as a wounded Iraq veteran and filed a slew of conspiracy-laden lawsuits earlier this year, according to authorities and records.
Nigel Edge — who changed his name from Sean DeBevoise in 2023 — was arrested Saturday night for launching his deadly assault on the American Fish Company restaurant in Southport Yacht Basin, about 30 miles south of Wilmington, when he suddenly sprayed bullets into the crowd of unsuspecting diners, officials said.
Three people were killed and eight injured, authorities said.
One of the wounded victims is still “clinging to life,” officials told reporters Sunday, adding that many who were at the restaurant last night were from out of state.
Edge, 39, was armed with a short barrel AR rifle, equipped with a suppressor, with a folding stock and scope, court documents charge.
The suspect, described as a “lone wolf’’ by authorities, faces three counts of first-degree murder, five counts of attempted first-degree murder and five counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
The motive has yet to be determined, police said.
But records show Edge has been behind several bizarre lawsuits filed in North Carolina this year — including one accusing a Southport church of trying to kill him.
The suit, filed in May, claimed the Generations Church was behind a “civil conspiracy” masterminded by the LGBTQ community and white supremacist pedophiles to kill Edge because he’s “a straight man.”
In January, Edge filed a similar suit against the Brunswick Medical Center, accusing it of being part of a conspiracy launched by “LGBTQ White Supremacists” who were allegedly out to get him because he survived their attack in Iraq.
