KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—A man fatally stabbed three employees and wounded a customer at a Tennessee rest stop and travel center Tuesday morning before a deputy shot and killed him, authorities said.
The Knox County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call around 7 a.m. at a Pilot Travel Center off Interstate 40 to find a person with stab wounds outside the store and a man armed with a knife in the parking lot, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. Witnesses identified the man as the suspect, and he refused deputies’ demands to drop the weapon, the bureau said. At some point during the encounter, a deputy fired, striking and killing the suspect, the statement said.
