DEADLY

Shooting Kills One

HAYWOOD CO. Tenn. — A shooting left one teen dead and another injured in a local county.

On Friday night at approximately 9:40 pm., Haywood Sheriff’s Deputies received a call that “Someone was shooting at son’s car.”

The victims were leaving a basketball game in Ripley, returning to Brownsville along Highway 19.

The suspects were driving an older model gray Dodge Charger. Deputies later located the victims on West Main near Sunset Circle in Brownsville. There were four occupants in the victim’s vehicle, all teenagers from Brownsville. The vehicle had been struck by several gunshot rounds.

Sheriff Billy Garrett says that one of the four victims received a graze wound, while a back seat passenger, Christine Marie Michael, age 17, received a fatal gunshot wound.

“The victim of course had been shot. She was in the back seat and emergency personnel was contacted. They arrived on the scene and worked with her some, but she was pronounced dead at the local hospital here in Brownsville,” said Sheriff Billy Garrett.