Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Roy Cooper and Republican candidate Michael Whatley continued their campaign tours across North Carolina on Friday.
Deputies doing a welfare check in the Gillside community found two people dead with apparent gunshot wounds.
Sheriff Curtis Brame said the two should be considered armed and dangerous.
A former Vance County detention officer is facing nine charges after a woman reported he sexually assaulted her while she was in custody.
Authorities say the incident appears to be isolated and there is no ongoing threat to the public.
According to campus police, 21-year-old Ashton Boone, of Henderson, was accused of multiple secret-peeping incidents at three different dorms in March.