Greensboro officer's killing sparks questions over alert system - Salisbury Post

Greensboro officer's killing sparks questions over alert system - Salisbury Post

SALISBURY — After an off-duty police officer, Sgt. Philip Dale Nix, was shot and killed on Saturday while attempting to stop a robbery at a Sheetz gas station, the North Carolina Center for Missing Persons issued a Blue Alert notifying law enforcement personnel and the public statewide that the alleged killers had escaped the scene and were still at large.  The NCCMP’s archives show that Saturday’s alert was the first of its kind in the state, p…