MORRISTOWN, Tenn. – The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is looking into a deadly standoff that involved several law enforcement agencies.
The Citizen Tribune reports District Attorney General James Dunn asked the state agency to investigate after the shooting occurred Thursday evening in Grainger County.
The incident appears to have begun in Claiborne County when a deputy reported seeing a man driving a stolen vehicle and tried to make a traffic stop. They turned into a multiple agency pursuit that ended in Grainger County, where the standoff ensued.
The TBI says at some point the man left the vehicle and was shot.
The agency said the identity of the suspect would be released after an autopsy.