TRACY CITY, Tenn. — Authorities have locked down a neighborhood and are using dogs in the search for Kermit Bryson, a suspect in the shooting of two officers overnight.
Authorities at the scene said two Grundy County deputies and a Monteagle police officer went to Mr. Bryson’s trailer behind a housing development to serve a warrant for violating probation.
While they were there, gunfire erupted. One deputy, a 30-year-old new graduate of the police academy, was dead at the scene, 12th Judicial District Attorney Steve Strain said. The Monteagle officer was treated at a Sewanee hospital for injuries that were not life-threatening, Mr. Strain said. The other deputy was not injured.
No one is being allowed to enter or leave the neighborhood, authorities said. Two helicopters are in the air and dog teams from Rhea and Coffee counties are on the scene.
More information will be available after a noon news conference, authorities said.
Continue to follow updates here throughout the day and read the Chattanooga Times Free Press on Friday for complete coverage.
Ben Benton is a news reporter at the Chattanooga Times Free Press. He covers Southeast Tennessee and previously covered North Georgia education. Ben has worked at the Times Free Press since November 2005, first covering Bledsoe and Sequatchie counties and later adding Marion, Grundy and other counties in the northern and western edges of the region to his coverage. He was born and raised in Cleveland, Tenn., a graduate of Bradley Central High School. Benton ...
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