KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) – A 27-year-old man is facing charges after witnesses told police he got into a fight at a Knoxville bar, followed a man down Kingston Pike, and fired a rifle.
It happened around 2 a.m. Sunday when officers responded to BucketHead Tavern on Ray Mears Boulevard, according to a police report obtained by WVLT News.
The officer who wrote the report said he was told Austin Wayne Ford had gotten into a fight outside the bar with a couple. During the fight, police were told, Ford grabbed a black rifle from his truck.
“[The witness] advised she was afraid Austin was going to shoot her and her boyfriend over the fight and argument even though she did not remember him pointing the gun at her directly,” the report said…