Lingering Neighborhood Feud Takes Deadly Turn In Hermitage

HERMITAGE, TN — A inter-family feud on Couchville Pike turned fatal Wednesday, according to Metro Police.

George Talley, 62, was shot and killed on his son's property in an exclave of Davidson County, cut off from the rest of Metro by Percy Priest Lake and nearly surrounded by Long Hunter State Park. Both the son, Matthew Talley, 31, and the neighbor, Joseph Scott Drummond, 53, fired shots, investigators say.

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The elder Talley and Drummond were involved in a "heated altercation," police said. Matthew Talley said he saw Drummond with a gun and then he pulled his own pistol.

George Talley was hit in the torso and died at the scene. Matthew Talley was shot in the buttocks and was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Both men told detectives they fired in self-defense.

No one has been charged in the gunfight, though Drummond was arrested for resisting officers at the South Precinct during his interview.

The District Attorney's office will determine if further charges are warranted, police said.

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