Deputy, Teenager Dead in Tenn. Shootout

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Deputy, Teenager Dead in Tenn. Shootout

By DUNCAN MANSFIELD

 

LENOIR CITY, Tenn. (AP) - A teenager who killed a sheriff's deputy and barricaded himself in his home was found dead inside Saturday with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot to the head, officials said.

 

Michael Harvey, 16, was found in an upstairs bedroom of his lakeside home, said Loudon County Sheriff Tim Guider. He said the teenager had been dead for up to 20 hours.

 

Harvey fired on SWAT team officers Friday afternoon from the home where he had semiautomatic weapons with multiple 30-round magazines.

 

The confrontation started Friday morning when officers went to investigate a domestic violence complaint from the boy's mother, who had fled to a neighbor's house. She allegedly was attacked with a pipe when she refused to let the boy drive to school after drinking the night before.

 

Deputies arriving at the house were turned away by heavy gunfire.

 

A SWAT team once made it into the garage before turning back, and robots sent into the house were blocked by obstacles. Officers fired tear gas into the house but got no response, and the teen did not answer calls or efforts to contact him over loudspeakers.

 

Deputy Jason Scott, 24, a three-year veteran of the Loudon County Sheriff's Department, was fatally shot four times. A second officer saw Scott's body, retreated under fire and called for backup. Four other officers suffered minor injuries from debris when the teenager shot at them as they hid behind a woodpile. The officers were treated and are fine, police said.

 

The boy's mother was treated at a local hospital and released.

 

``Deputies answered the call not knowing there were any weapons in the house. Officer Scott was the first one to arrive and was shot as he stepped out of the car,'' Guider said.

 

Officers were able to remove the body of the slain officer, whose wife is expecting their first child. Through tears, Guider described Scott as ``a wonderful young man, very lively, very friendly, very outgoing.''

 

Ed Sullivan, the teen's youth minister at United Church of Christ Church of the Savior in Knoxville, told The Knoxville News Sentinel that Harvey slit his wrists last fall and spent some time in Peninsula Hospital, a mental health facility.

 

Still, Sulivan said he was shocked. ``He's a quiet kid, a gentle kid,'' Sullivan said.

 

 

``He's a quiet kid, a gentle kid,'' thats code for he's going to snap and kill us all.

[snuffbox 0]

Ill bet this happened in Kentucky...oh...close enough.

[Styles 0]

Whoa, whoa, whoa...he shot the sheriff but he DID NOT shoot the deputy....

 

Yeah, that's all I got...

[BX 0]

Yeah, you never hear:

 

"Gawsh, he was a bad 'un. Always mouthin off to 'is daddy, slapping his maw around.. I reck'un he'd gu'n n' do this sumday.

 

All dem dead kittens wuz a sign, shurely."

 

Reporter: "I appreciate your time Sir, but my name isn't Shirley."

[The Czech Republic 0]

Whoa, whoa, whoa...he shot the sheriff but he DID NOT shoot the deputy....

 

Yeah, that's all I got...

Ed Sullivan, the teen's youth minister at United Church of Christ Church of the Savior in Knoxville, told The Knoxville News Sentinel that Harvey slit his wrists last fall and spent some time in Peninsula Hospital, a mental health facility.

 

Sullivan's comments: "That boy gave us a really big show. Really big."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah I ain't got nothin' either.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Whoa, whoa, whoa...he shot the sheriff but he DID NOT shoot the deputy....

 

Yeah, that's all I got...

Nice to see that an innocent man is dead and all you can reply with is a poorly executed attempt at wit.

 

Maybe when there's humour involved you'll have a shot.

[2GOLD 0]

This is why us nice and quiet ones aren't trusted anymore.

 

This is a damn shame and kids seem to be going crazier by the second in this country. I'm taking Chris Rock's advice and if I get on an elevator and three white boys get on, I'm leaping the hell out.

 

That's not a joke either, I'm starting to get a general fear of teens especially if they are white.

 

This is sad, it's a mess but at least the monster is dead and not going to court.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

And somewhere there is a faction of people that are going to blame the cop for all of this...

[snuffbox 0]

This is why us nice and quiet ones aren't trusted anymore.

 

This is a damn shame and kids seem to be going crazier by the second in this country. I'm taking Chris Rock's advice and if I get on an elevator and three white boys get on, I'm leaping the hell out.

 

That's not a joke either, I'm starting to get a general fear of teens especially if they are white.

 

This is sad, it's a mess but at least the monster is dead and not going to court.

Thats racism...

[2GOLD 0]

This is why us nice and quiet ones aren't trusted anymore.

 

This is a damn shame and kids seem to be going crazier by the second in this country. I'm taking Chris Rock's advice and if I get on an elevator and three white boys get on, I'm leaping the hell out.

 

That's not a joke either, I'm starting to get a general fear of teens especially if they are white.

 

This is sad, it's a mess but at least the monster is dead and not going to court.

Thats racism...

 

No, I'm white.

I call it self hatred.

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Officers were able to remove the body of the slain officer, whose wife is expecting their first child.  Through tears, Guider described Scott as ``a wonderful young man, very lively, very friendly, very outgoing.''

 

Too bad the little shit shot himself, cause I'd have loved to personally see the State execute him.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Dead's dead.

[Guest MikeSC]

And somewhere there is a faction of people that are going to blame the cop for all of this...

I blame guns.

 

It's always easiest to blame inanimate objects. They don't protest it too much, so they MUST know they're guilty.

-=Mike

...I won't blame guns whenever I hear a gun claim it didn't do it.