Bledsoe County Sheriff James “Jimmy” Morris was arrested early Sunday morning in Dunlap, Tenn.
Shannon Bach faces charges in Dunlap, Tenn., involving a fight.Witnesses can’t agree whether Bledsoe County, Tenn., Sheriff Jimmy Morris started the brawl that landed him and five other people in jail on disorderly conduct charges Sunday morning.
Morris was arrested about 3:45 a.m. CST at the Huddle House on Rankin Avenue in Dunlap, Tenn. Restaurant employees called Dunlap police after several people started fighting in the parking lot.
When officers arrived, they found one man, Shannon Dee Bach, bleeding from a cut above his left eye. Witnesses agreed Bach and Morris were fighting, but some witnesses claimed Morris started the fight, and others said Bach threw the first punch, according to the incident report.
Huddle House employee Asya Louallen said Bach hit Morris first.
But witness Sharon Davis told police she saw Morris flip a lighted cigarette at Bach while inside the Huddle House. She said another man, Jerry Lee Summers, grabbed Bach and held him while Morris punched him. At least two other witnesses also said Summers and Morris attacked Bach, according to the report.