SOUTHPORT, N.C. (WECT) - It’s been nearly 20 years since the last execution in North Carolina, but Brunswick County District Attorney Jon David says pursuing the death penalty is on the table after Saturday’s mass shooting in Southport.

The suspected gunman who opened fire at a crowded dockside restaurant in North Carolina — killing three people and injuring eight others — once identified himself as a wounded Iraq veteran and filed a slew of conspiracy-laden lawsuits earlier this year,

The husband of one of the people killed in a shooting in Southport said his wife was devoted to her family and a supportive mother to three children.

The governor spoke hours after the alleged shooter, a military veteran who was shot in Iraq, made his first court appearance on murder charges.