Terry Wayne McCullough
A Tullahoma, Tenn., man who named himself a member of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, known as ISIS, and threatened to burn his neighbors’ homes and behead them remains behind bars in Coffee County awaiting a date in court.
Tullahoma police Chief Paul Blackwell says 59-year-old Terry Wayne McCullough is well known in local law enforcement circles as “Trouble” McCullough, but the chief doesn’t think McCullough is likely to carry out his threats.
“I wouldn’t say we discount anything he says, but he’s never been a serious problem for us,” Blackwell said. “He’s been around town all of his 59 years and he’s been in and out of little misdemeanor things for years.”
But McCullough upped the ante with claims of ISIS connections and threats of violence Sunday at Tullahoma’s public housing complex, Dossett Apartments, on East Grundy Street.
Tullahoma police officer James Tate spoke with a Dossett resident Sunday who said McCullough had been roaming the area of apartments 101 through 112 threatening to “burn the place down and cut off people’s heads,” the officer’s report states.