Knoxville police have not announced any arrests, publicly identified any suspects or disclosed any possible motives in the shootings of Muhammad and Gillette. A woman found him wounded on Cherokee Trail in South Knoxville, near the University of Tennessee Medical Center, and took the teen to that hospital. Jamarion 'Lil Dada' Gillette, 15, died after being shot March 9. Janaria Muhammad, a 15-year-old freshman at Austin-East, was found shot outside the home where she lived on Selma Avenue on Feb. Shooting deaths: Knoxville police say they have no new information to share in teens' deaths Two teenage boys, ages 14 and 16, have been charged with killing him.Īustin-East students lost to violence: A timeline of the four Knoxville teenagers who have been lost to gun violence in 2021 Investigators quickly arrested the 17-year-old on a charge of criminally negligent homicide.Īnother teenager, 16-year-old Stanley Freeman Jr., was fatally shot on Tarleton Avenue while driving home after school on Feb. 27 after police say a 17-year-old boy accidentally shot him while they both were inside a car. Justin Taylor, a 15-year-old Austin-East student, died Jan. In recent months, the shooting deaths of four Knoxville teens have become the rallying cry for community members pushing for an end to gun violence. Knoxville shootings have shaken the Austin-East High School community Knox County Schools established a reunification site at the baseball field behind the school near Wilson Avenue and Hembree Street for parents to connect with their children who attend the school. Police and emergency workers flooded the neighborhood as the incident unfolded, and blocked off access to the school and parts of the neighborhood. 'What happened here today is a terrible tragedy and I’m heartbroken that this awful incident occurred in one of our schools,” Bob Thomas said at the press conference, adding that grief counselors would be available for students. View Gallery: Police respond to a shooting at Austin-East High School in KnoxvilleĪustin-East will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday. He’s in the hospital recovering,” she said. Knox County School Board member Evetty Satterfield was the first public official to confirm a student had been killed. Satterfield walked across the road to a crowd of reporters, protesters and onlookers after the incident. Knoxville police released only basic information after the shooting, saying that an officer was recovering and a male had been killed. Rausch said it was a witness, not a suspect. The source also said one person was detained. He was shot in the hip, the source told Knox News. One source with direct knowledge of the incident who was not authorized to speak told Knox News the wounded police officer is the Austin-East school resource officer.

'It’s a sad day for Knoxville and it’s tough for Austin-East.'

“I’ve spent a lot of time here in this community,' said Rausch, a former Knoxville police chief. When officers entered the bathroom, the student fired at them, striking one officer, and was hit and killed by return fire from police, Rausch said. after police responded to a call that an armed student was holed up in a school bathroom. The shootings occurred at about 3:15 p.m.

Watch Video: One dead, officer wounded in shooting at Austin-East Magnet High SchoolĪ teenage boy was killed and a police officer wounded Monday afternoon in a shootout at Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, said David Rausch, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

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