Tennessee murder suspect Austin Drummond, accused of killing 4 family members, is captured after manhunt

Tennessee murder suspect Austin Drummond, accused of killing 4 family members, is captured after manhunt

Details of quadruple murder suspect’s arrest Details of suspect’s arrest in murders of 4 Tennessee family members 03:31 A man suspected of killing four family members in Tennessee has been captured, authorities said. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced the arrest of Austin Drummond on Tuesday morning. Drummond, 28, has been charged with four counts…

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Tennessee authorities arrest 2 linked to suspect in the killings of 4 relatives of an abandoned infant

Tennessee authorities arrest 2 linked to suspect in the killings of 4 relatives of an abandoned infant

Two men were arrested in connection with the murders of the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found alive in Tennessee, as a manhunt for the suspected killer continues, officials said. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation charged Tanaka Brown, 29, and Giovonte Thomas, 29, with accessory after the fact to first-degree murder. Investigators allege…

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Tennessee man threatened to kill public officials, kept explosive devices in his home, authorities say

Tennessee man threatened to kill public officials, kept explosive devices in his home, authorities say

Authorities in Tennessee have arrested a man who threatened to kill public officials and had explosive devices in his Polk County home. Polk County Sheriff’s deputies on Friday executed an arrest warrant for 54-year-old Kevin Wade O’Neal at his house in Old Fort, an unincorporated community about an hour east of Chattanooga, for allegedly threatening…

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Tennessee inmate's heart device must be turned off before execution to avoid shock risk, judge rules

Turning off inmate’s heart device to avoid shock risk at execution would cause chaos, Tennessee attorneys say

A judge’s order to take a Tennessee death row inmate to the hospital on the morning of his execution so doctors can deactivate his heart-regulating implant would cause “chaos,” state attorneys said in an appeal. The argument was one of several in a filing Wednesday that seeks to overturn an order to deactivate Byron Black’s…

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Tennessee inmate's heart device must be turned off before execution to avoid shock risk, judge rules

Tennessee inmate’s heart device must be turned off before execution to avoid shock risk, judge rules

Tennessee officials must deactivate a death-row inmate’s implanted heart-regulating device to avert the risk that it might try to shock him during his lethal injection, a judge ruled Friday. The order by Nashville Chancellor Russell Perkins comes ahead of the Aug. 5 execution of Byron Black. Black’s attorneys have said that the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator could…

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