Joshua Andrew Duncan.A Catoosa County deputy facing an armed man got the drop on the suspect, pulling him to the ground and sliding his thumb against the cocked hammer of the suspect’s gun to stop it from going off, according to an incident report.
The Nov. 2 confrontation started as a traffic stop, when Deputy Aaron Thomas saw a Ford F-150 with a light out on Lakeview Drive in Rossville and pulled the driver over.
At the parking lot of a Mapco, across from Lake Winnepesaukah Amusement Park, Thomas ran the driver’s licenses of the three people in the truck, noticing that Joshua Andrew Duncan was wanted for probation violation and failure to appear.
When Thomas asked him to get out of the truck, Duncan ran away. Thomas chased. Duncan pulled out a handgun.
The report said Duncan yelled “Stay back!” at the deputy and, “Don’t make me do it! I’m not going back to jail!”