Luke Roberts, 21, was still on the phone with a Hamilton County 911 dispatcher on Halloween when, according to the sheriff’s office arrest report, the dispatcher advised him to stop following another driver once he had the man’s license plate. Local 3 News, which reported what the arrest report says, writes that Roberts kept following anyway, from Dayton Pike through Retro Hughes Road and Back Valley Road to a home on Fuller Lane in Sale Creek, Tennessee. The Sale Creek shooting began around 5:30 p.m., when the two men exchanged gunfire; one bullet went through the front living room of the house, passing near someone inside.
Two accounts of what happened in the driveway
Roberts called 911 first, the reports say, to say the other driver was tailing him aggressively and looked ready to rear-end his vehicle. Chattanoogan.com reported that he later gave dispatch the tag number and stayed on the line while he followed. At the house, Roberts told deputies, the other man got out and pointed a gun at him. Roberts said he fired, backed into a ditch, moved to the other side of his vehicle and kept firing while yelling at the man to drop the gun, then left. Deputies detained him on Back Valley Road.
The other man, a private citizen Backfire News is not naming, told deputies a different story. He said Roberts cut him off, brake-checked him and followed him, and that he was holding a phone to photograph Roberts’s plate, not a gun. He said he felt multiple impacts on the back of his truck as he pulled into his driveway, got out unarmed and was shot in the left ankle. Only then, he told deputies, did he take a gun from under his seat and fire until it was empty…