SOUTHPORT, N.C. (WNCN) — N.C. Governor Josh Stein appeared in Southport Monday, where a waterfront restaurant became the scene of a mass shooting over the weekend.

Three were killed and another five were injured Saturday night at American Fish Company — the target of a suspect with a gun firing from a boat near the shoreline. The shots rang out around 9:30 p.m. at the restaurant on Yacht Basin Drive, along the Cape Fear River.

Stein appeared alongside law enforcement officials whom he thanked for ending "fear and panic" with their immediate response and apprehension of the suspect, 40-year-old Nigel Edge of Oak Island.

"It was horrific. I'm heartbroken for the families of the three people who lost their lives in this terrible incident," Gov. Stein said.

Edge, a former U.S. Marine and t

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