James Michael FergusonA Franklin County, Tennessee, man is behind bars after leading deputies on a car chase and firing an arrow into a patrol car door, authorities said.
The suspect, identified as 39-year-old James Michael Ferguson, allegedly disobeyed police commands at a crash scene on Old Tullahoma Road on Sunday night, a Franklin County Sheriff’s Office news release states. Old Tullahoma Road is a two-lane state highway that runs about 16 miles between Winchester and Tullahoma in neighboring Coffee County.
Ferguson approached the crash scene but didn’t “comply with the deputy telling him to stop, then he stopped and said, ‘That’s my car there in that wreck.’ And the deputy said, ‘Let me see your ID,’ and then he put it in reverse and down the road they go,” sheriff’s office spokesman Sgt. Chris Guess said Tuesday.
The car pursuit was short-lived.
“They saw him in the car and knew who he was and where he lives and that’s how they knew where to go,” Guess said. “They didn’t pursue him because of road conditions, and they also knew where he lives so they went to his house.”