Police: Tennessee man shoots himself in hand, lies that someone else shot him

KINGSPORT, T.N. (WJHL) — An incident on Monday that prompted several Tennessee school lockdowns stemmed from a man's false report that someone had ...

September 21, 2022
1:32 AM

KINGSPORT, T.N. (WJHL) — An incident on Monday that prompted several Tennessee school lockdowns stemmed from a man's false report that someone had shot him and fled the scene, police say. Kingsport, Tennessee, authorities say when they arrived at 1:15 p.m. to the Cypress Street and Ash Street intersection, officers found two people — a man and another adult whose gender was undisclosed — with non-life-threatening injuries from a gunshot. The duo allegedly lied to police, claiming a third individual had shot them and then ran with the gun to a nearby neighborhood.

Mackenzie Moore