The Commercial Appeal
BARTLETT, Tenn. — Bartlett police were investigating a Sunday night incident where more than a dozen shots were fired at the Tennessee Highway Patrol station on Summer near Elmore.
As of Monday afternoon, police had no suspects in the case or motive. Investigators were reviewing surveillance data to see if they could determine any suspect information.
The THP office is just inside the Bartlett city limits on the north side of Summer, west of Elmore.
According to Bartlett police reports, officers received a shots fired call to the station 6348 Summer, also known as U.S. 70, about 8:45 p.m. Sunday. When they arrived, THP Lt. William Futrell said he heard 15 to 20 gunshots, and there were bullet holes in the front of the building.
Authorities advised that several rounds penetrated the front of the building, Officers at the scene found 14 AK-47 shell casings in the eastbound lanes of the highway in front of the headquarters.
“The rounds were in a tight group as if the suspect(s) stopped their vehicle in the middle of the road, stepped out of the vehicle, and intentionally fired the rounds into the police station,” Lt. Cary Hopkins, the THP public information officer, said in a report.
Three people — two dispatchers and a trooper — were inside the office at the time. No one was injured in the incident, Hopkins said.
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