The TBI has confirmed the agency is investigating a shooting in Tracy City, Tennessee, on Tuesday involving an off-duty state trooper.
The district attorney for Grundy County, where the shooting occurred, requested the probe, agency spokesperson Mariah Dunlop said by email. The shooting happened in the 200 block of Colyar Street in the middle of town. Colyar Street is also U.S. Highway 41 outside the city limits.
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Dunlop declined to identify the trooper, and there was no information available on possible injuries or criminal charges. District Attorney Courtney C. Lynch did not respond to a message seeking details on the investigation and shooting incident left at her office in Winchester, Tennessee.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol’s public information officer for the Chattanooga district, Capt. Cecil Harvey, referred questions to agency staff in Nashville when he was reached Wednesday by phone. The Nashville office did not respond to a phone message or an email seeking details.