This undated photo released by the Knox County Schools, high school football player Zaevion Dobson, 15, was shot to death Thursday night, Dec. 17, 2015, in Knoxville, Tenn., as he shielded three girls from gunfire in a shooting spree. Dobson, a sophomore at Fulton High School in northern Knoxville, was a fine, fine young man, said Fulton High School football coach Rob Black. (Knox County Schools via AP)KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A man arrested after a Knoxville high school football player was killed shielding friends from gunfire told police he fired into the group of teenagers with a .40-caliber Glock handgun.
The Knoxville News Sentinel reports details of the shooting that killed 15-year-old Zaevion Dobson were revealed at a court hearing Friday.
Twenty-year-old Christopher Bassett was arrested shortly after the Dec. 17 shooting on a weapons charge. He was already on probation in a separate case, and the Friday hearing was over whether to revoke that probation.
At the hearing, Knoxville Police investigator A.J. Loeffler said Bassett and two others went to the housing development where Dobson and friends were gathered on the night of Dec. 17 and shot into a group of teenagers.
Police found 23 .40-caliber shell casings and nine 9-mm shell casings on the street 20 to 30 yards from Dobson’s body, Loeffler said.