TN Officer-Involved Shootings: 10 In The Past Month

NEW JOHNSONVILLE, TN -- A Christmas Day officer-involved shooting in the riverside burg of New Johnsonville and a shooting of a man in Weakley County who allegedly crashed through a sobriety check in Kentucky were the ninth and 10th officer-involved shootings in Tennessee since Nov. 25.

There have been four officer-involved shootings in the Volunteer State in three days.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced agents were on the scene in Humphreys County to determine what led New Johnsonville police and Humphreys County Sheriff's deputies shooting a man on Carmen Road early Monday.

Early indications are that the man pointed a shotgun at officers. He is at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

In Weakley County, 34-year-old Salvador Byassee was shot and killed Tuesday after he allegedly came at law enforcement with a knife. According to investigators, Byassee had crashed through a sobriety checkpoint in Hickman County, Ky., before fleeing into Tennessee where he crashed his vehicle and then allegedly stole a car.

Byassee was being pursued by Hickman County, Ky. Sheriff’s deputies and Kentucky State Police in addition to local Weakley County law enforcement. The TBI did not say from which department’s officers the fatal shot came.

The other incidents since Nov. 25 are:

• Grundy County (one dead, still under investigation): Dec. 24
• Lawrence County: Dec. 24
• Knox County: Dec. 18
• Coffee County: Dec. 17
• Bradley County (one dead): Dec. 17
• Warren County: Dec. 15
• Sevier County: Dec. 3
• Smith County: Nov. 25

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