Verbal dispute escalates with reckless driving and firearm threat, Maryville TN
WeaponsA verbal dispute between two vehicles escalated near Mint Road and Knob and Walker School. The argument involved reckless driving, one vehicle trying to hit the other, and a threat to shoot using a firearm. One vehicle fled the scene after pushing the other to the roadside. Police received multiple reports including one of a hit-and-run involving a vehicle with a partial license plate number withheld.
Audio|Source: Blount County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Start towards near Mint Road, near Knob and Walker School.
00:07
My partner's got a pretty heated disturbance on the phone currently.
00:11
There's a female driving recklessly behind them, and now they're in a verbal altercation in the middle of the roadway.
00:17
It should be a dark color Altima, the complaint is, and a white Equinox.
00:21
We're trying to get them separated right now, but it is getting heated.
00:34
Apparently the husbands are currently in an argument.
00:38
Don't know that it's physical or anything at this point, but we're not able to get them to separate.
00:48
The complainant that we have on the phone is advising that the female tried to hit them.
01:01
About 13 traffic, Tom.
01:04
Go on first.
01:06
Bravo, Sierra, Whiskey's 9536.
01:09
Be a great BMW.
01:10
Maryville here at the Kenjo.
01:14
Okay.
01:33
The complaint keeps putting their phone down and the husbands are trying to separate from the other subject.
01:44
Enocent Road, it sounds like we might have the other type calling in now.
01:48
We see.
01:56
There are others that they're calling in now, while then they're going to be in a block, yes.
02:07
The original complainant and her husband are currently trying to find a spot on the roadway to pull off.
02:20
Okay.
02:24
If you make a note, I didn't have my body cam.
02:26
We'll be clear.
02:27
We'll be clear.
02:29
Okay.
02:34
Medic 7, we're clear, Children's and right back.
02:40
Medic 7 in service, 1941, and route back to the county break this past Medicaid 8.
02:50
She tried to pass the other vehicle and they pushed her to the side of the roadway and then the vehicle took off.
02:56
I believe I just heard my partner mention something about a weapon.
03:01
But the other subject in the Equinox told them, I'm going to shoot you, I'm a call.
03:10
And I guess now the complainant that my partner has on the phone is saying that they're trying to go home and the subject that my other partner has on the phone is currently tailgating them.
03:26
The crew change is going to be at Central or Station 1?
03:31
Central.
03:33
Copy Medicaid 2.
03:34
You're not the Central for Crew Change.
03:37
Copy.
03:40
It's actually going to be out of Station 1.
03:45
Copy, Medicaid, Station 1 for Cretention.
03:52
Code, and I think one of my other partners now has a third party on the phone.
04:06
Unison route to Mint Road, this third complaint is going to be a male subject, advising that this was going to be a hit-and-run.
04:13
They’re on Mint Road at Knob, possible partial tag of (number withheld), and the other vehicle did flee the scene, and they're now on Griffitts Mill Road.
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Near Mint Rd, Maryville, TN 37803
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