SNOW HILL, N.C. (AP) — Flags at the Greene County courthouse are flying at half-staff as a tribute to a North Carolina sheriff's deputy shot to death as he arrived to help calm a domestic disturbance.

The Free Press of Kinston reports Friday that flags have been lowered to honor Deputy Jon Willis.

The 30-year-old deputy was in his second stint with the Greene County sheriff's department. Sheriff Lemmie Smith says Willis was answering a domestic call in Snow Hill Wednesday night when 22-year-old Daniel Myers came out of a mobile home and shot the deputy twice.

Smith said Myers then shot and killed himself.

Willis is the third deputy killed in the line of duty in the past 15 months in the mostly rural area of North Carolina east of Interstate 95. He leaves behind two children.

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Information from: The Free Press, http://www.kinston.com