Dane Britt tells PEOPLE his wife saved his life and the lives of others at American Fish Company when she filmed suspect Nigel Edge the night before he carried out the attack

A North Carolina man apprehended after shooting up a waterfront bar in the seaside town of Southport on Saturday night — killing three people and wounding eight others — was a conspiracy theorist obsessed with “LGBQT” “terrorists” colluding to “traffic” him.

New information on the Southport mass shooting was revealed during the suspect's first appearance in court on Monday, Sept. 29.

The madman who fired a hail of bullets at a crowded dockside restaurant, killing three people, was a highly decorated Marine and a Purple Heart recipient who did two tours in Iraq, according to authorities.

The man accused in Saturday night’s mass shooting in Southport made his first court appearance Monday afternoon in Brunswick County.

Thomas Jacob Sanford was identified in a Michigan church shooting. Hours earlier, Nigel Max Edge opened fire at a crowded bar in Southport, North Carolina.

The suspected gunman who opened fire at a crowded dockside restaurant in North Carolina — killing three people and injuring eight others — has been identified.

Edge was born Sean William Debevoise. He later legally changed his name in 2023. In his name change petition to the court, he wrote: "There have been a lot of events in my life that I don't understand. Therefore, I do not trust my family, and I would feel more comfortable starting my life in a new path with a new name."

Years before he was arrested for allegedly opening fire in Southport, N.C., on Saturday, September 27, killing three victims, Nigel Edge, whose former name is Sean DeBevoise, once escorted American Idolalum Kellie Pickler to the CMT Awards.