TBI: Elizabethton resident dead following officer-involved shooting

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has released a statement regarding an officer-involved shooting in Carter County Friday morning that left one person dead.

The report said the incident occurred just before 7:30 after officers arrived in the 100 block of Woodland Heights Road in Elizabethton following a report of a man with a weapon threatening residents.

A deputy with the Carter County Sheriff’s Office approached the man who the TBI said raised his weapon and approached the officer who then fired a shot. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The deputy was not injured.

The TBI will turn over evidence in the case to the District Attorney’s Office.

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