KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating a stabbing and an officer involved shooting incident after Knoxville gas station employees and a suspect were killed Tuesday morning.
TBI identified the three deceased victims as 57-year-old Joyce Whaley, 51-year-old Patricia Denise Nibbe and 41-year-old Nettie R. Spencer. The deceased suspect was identified as 33-year-old Idris Abdus-Salaam, a North Carolina truck driver,
Three Pilot employees are dead and one customer injured after a stabbing and an officer-involved shooting at an East Knox County Pilot truck stop.
According to the TBI, the Knox County Sheriff's Office received a report of the incident at the Strawberry Plains Pike location around 7 am on Tuesday. Upon arrival officers observed at least one person with stab wounds and a man identified by witnesses as the suspect armed with a knife in the Pilot parking lot.
According to officials, officers confronted the suspect and when he refused to drop the weapon, one of the officers fired shots, striking the man. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. He has not yet been identified.
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TBI identified the three deceased victims as 57-year-old Joyce Whaley, 51-year-old Patricia Denise Nibbe and 41-year-old Nettie R. Spencer. The deceased suspect was identified as 33-year-old Idris Abdus-Salaam, a North Carolina truck driver,
Three Pilot employees are dead and one customer injured after a stabbing and an officer-involved shooting at an East Knox County Pilot truck stop.
According to the TBI, the Knox County Sheriff's Office received a report of the incident at the Strawberry Plains Pike location around 7 am on Tuesday. Upon arrival officers observed at least one person with stab wounds and a man identified by witnesses as the suspect armed with a knife in the Pilot parking lot.
According to officials, officers confronted the suspect and when he refused to drop the weapon, one of the officers fired shots, striking the man. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. He has not yet been identified.
Victim injured in Pilot stabbing released from hospital
Three Pilot employees are dead and one customer injured after a stabbing and an officer-involved shooting at an East Knox County truck stop.
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