A man recently indicted in Chattanooga’s U.S. District Court for possessing child pornography killed himself Tuesday when authorities went to arrest him.
Phillip Andrew Forrester shot himself at his mother’s house in Tullahoma around 1 p.m. Tuesday as the FBI arrived.
His attorney, Lee Davis, said there appeared to be no confrontation between Forrester and authorities.
“This is tragic for Mr. Forrester and his mother,” Davis said Wednesday. “But I’m also sorry that the officers who were just doing their job had to deal with this situation in this way. It’s not the result that any of us were working toward, and it’s tragic on all sides.”
Forrester’s case goes back to August 2014, when The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a cybertip from Google that an email address had uploaded nine images of suspected child pornography, court records show.