KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — A Maryville man has been sentenced after he was convicted of stabbing a woman and two men at a Bearden bar on New Year’s Day in 2024.
Knox County District Attorney General Charme Allen announced on Friday that Shawn Edward Hatcher, 50, was sentenced to serve 16 years in prison in addition to a sentence from a separate case out of Blount County. Allen previously released in September that Hatcher was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault, assault, and unlawful possession of a weapon.
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During the two-day trial, prosecutors explained that Knoxville Police officers responded to a 911 call on January 1 after a stabbing was reported at the Brickyard Bar and Grill on Homberg Drive in Bearden. There, officers learned that Hatcher had been flirting with a woman who asked him to stop touching her. The DA’s office said another woman told Hatcher to leave the first woman alone.
According to the DA’s office, as the woman who intervened was leaving with a group of her friends, Hatcher punched her and then stabbed her. Two men in the group intervened, and Hatcher stabbed and cut them as well, a release from the DA’s office said…