Site of fatal Tullahoma, Tenn., shooting.No charges have been filed in connection with a shooting Tuesday in Tullahoma, Tenn., that claimed the life of a Tullahoma High School student and wounded his uncle, authorities said Friday.
Tullahoma police said in a news release on the shooting that 17-year-old Austin Ferrell was found unresponsive on the porch of a home at 512 W. Grundy St. in Tullahoma around 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Ferrell’s uncle, George Clay Taylor, 38, was found in the home’s yard also suffering from a gunshot wound.
Taylor last was listed in stable condition at Vanderbilt Medical Center, police said.
The suspected gunman, 73-year-old Nicholas Dipietrantonio, the resident at the address where the shooting occurred, was questioned by officers, along with 50-year-old Debra Ng, who was at Dipietrantonio’s home at the time, Tullahoma Police Department Capt. Scott Jackson said.