A detective under investigation for his involvement in a viral video in which he is seen punching and kicking a handcuffed man is also currently involved in a lawsuit for his part in deadly car chase.
Detective Blake Kilpatrick was named in the $40 million lawsuit filed earlier this year as one of the deputies involved in the shooting death of Christopher Dalton Sexton, 29, who was killed after leading police on a car chase in 2017.
The pursuit crisscrossed county lines as Sexton drove between Hamilton and Sequatchie counties, according to a TBI report.
Sexton’s vehicle was forced off the roadway by a deputy as the pursuit turned onto Sequoyah Road and Sexton exited his vehicle, brandishing a weapon and pointing it at officers. Several deputies fired at him, striking and killing him at the scene.
The lawsuit alleges Sexton never posed a threat to the public or deputies and those deputies were wrong to kill him. In fact, the lawsuit claims that rather than pointing a firearm at authorities, he “exited his vehicle and began moving away from law enforcement, with his back to law enforcement.”