NC Libertarian Senate Candidate Makes Interesting Final Push Before Election Day

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Officers were first called to Miller's apartment for a welfare check at around 8.26am on Monday after he posted to social media about feeling suicidal the night before, Police Chief Terry Sult said at a news conference. When police then arrived on the scene, they found Miller with a firearm and he 'was ordered not to touch it' at which point he fled into the woods behind his apartment complex, Sult said.

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'The whole police department is chasing me with guns drawn. This should be fun,' he wrote at 9.38am, followed by another post in which he wrote: 'I've got six shots and the high ground. 'I hope they don't find me, but if they do, it's going to be a hell of a show,' he warned. As he ran from police, Miller also decided to call WRAL and share his story.

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'Last night, I was pretty depressed and suicidal and I sort of put a suicide note on X and it has gone quite viral,' he told the outlet. 'Actually, millions of people have seen it,' the state Senate candidate then bragged. 'I usually get about 50 views on my post, but this one has gone super viral on me.' 'I spent all night crying and angry and upset and depressed and all the emotions,' he continued. 'And this morning, I was tired, but I had things I needed to do. And I didn't kill myself.' When he then stepped outside his apartment to have a cigarette, a police officer approached and 'saw that I had a holstered revolver on my hip, so he drew his weapon and told me to keep my hands away from mine,' Miller recounted.

'I told him I was going to refuse that order, and I backed away slowly until I was far enough away from him to turn and run, and then I turned and ran into the woods.'

After several hours of being pursued, he decided to deride the Cary Police Department.

'They have been chasing me since this morning. They're not very good at it. They really probably should get some more training on tracking somebody down,' Miller suggested.

When he was then asked why he was hiding in the woods, Miller explained that he didn't want police to take him into custody and 'then lock me up in a hospital' where he doubted he would get adequate mental health treatment.

'If I go to the hospital, I'll spend approximately 15 to 30 seconds every day with a doctor and that'll be my time to talk it out,' Miller said. 'He'll write me a [prescription] for a drug that doesn't help, and in a few days, I'll be right back where I'm at now.'

As police then closed in on him, Miller told WRAL he was 'hoping to wait them out and then disappear and never come back to Cary.'

But at 1.46pm, Miller posted on social media that 'they almost got me' after using a negotiator to distract him while SWAT teams surrounded him.

'Luckily I spotted one of them and took off,' he wrote, calling it a 'close' call and lamenting that he did not have any water with him.


Moments later, he noted that the police had search dogs with them 'so I'm probably done for.'

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