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Bond denied for Dunlap man in Christmas Eve shooting

Staff File Photo by Ben Benton / The Sequatchie County Justice Center in Dunlap, Tenn., is pictured. A Dunlap man is accused in a Dec. 24, 2025, shooting that left another man with a gunshot wound to his leg.
Staff File Photo by Ben Benton / The Sequatchie County Justice Center in Dunlap, Tenn., is pictured. A Dunlap man is accused in a Dec. 24, 2025, shooting that left another man with a gunshot wound to his leg.

A Dunlap man has been denied bond on charges stemming from a shooting at a local mobile home park on Christmas Eve.

James Alvin Stockwell, 35, is charged with aggravated assault on accusations of shooting another man in the leg, according to a Dunlap Police Department affidavit filed in Sequatchie County General Sessions Court.

Judge L. Thomas Austin denied bond Monday and appointed the public defender to represent Stockwell, Circuit Court Clerk Karen Millsaps said in an email.

Dunlap police got a call around 3 p.m. Dec. 24 that a man had come to Erlanger Sequatchie Valley Emergency Department on Rankin Avenue suffering from an apparent gunshot wound, the affidavit said. A Dunlap investigator spoke to him.

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