The shooter in North Caroline SELF-IDENTIFIES as a Combat Veteran. We don't know yet if he actually served, or if that is just part of his batcrap crazy story.
The police chief said that Edge said he has post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Coring said that he "self-identifies" as a veteran. Fox News Digital has reached out to the Department of Defense for comment.
"We understand this suspect identifies as a combat veteran. He self-identifies. Injured in the line of duty is what he’s saying, he suffers from PTSD," Coring said.
In a 2024 federal lawsuit dismissed earlier this year, Edge made sweeping claims that included references to what he called "a Hate Crime (LGBQT toward a straight man (me)) who was raised as a straight male for (LGBTQ) purposes in an illegal pedophile sex ring."
He also accused his parents of being "LGBQT White Supremacist Pedophiles" who falsified his birth certificate, drugged him and tried to profit from him, while tying his alleged mistreatment to the Iraq War, the Abu Ghraib scandal and the
Jeffrey Epstein case.
On March 12, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina dismissed the case. Judge Louise W. Flanagan ruled that Edge failed to state any viable constitutional or tort claims, noting that his filings were filled with extraordinary accusations but lacked legal grounding. The case was formally closed with all counts dismissed.