CHURCH HILL, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say
a Tennessee sheriff's deputy has fatally shot a man while trying to
serve felony warrants on him.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says the shooting occurred Monday
afternoon when Hawkins County deputies were trying to serve warrants out
of Dickenson County, Virginia, on 25-year-old Eugene Loftis of Church
Hill. The bureau says in a statement that deputies found Loftis in a car
in the driveway of a residence and ordered him to show his hands. The
statement says Loftis reached for a gun and one deputy fired shots.
Officials say Loftis died at the scene. No deputies were injured.
The bureau, which is investigating the shooting, does not release names
of deputies involved in shootings and did not release Loftis' race.
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