After a man shot a Maury County deputy, deputies returned gunfire outside a gas station, fatally shooting him early morning June 15, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
The man who died was 25-year-old Clayton Tyler Dodson, according to the news release from the TBI. One deputy was struck by Dodson’s gunfire and suffered minor injuries, TBI said.
This is the second time this weekend TBI has been asked to investigate a shooting by an officer. A Friday night shooting by a Memphis police officer left a man, who had struck another officer with his car, in critical condition.
The shooting occurred outside a gas station on New Lewisburg Highway near Interstate 65 in Columbia, based on information in the news release.
The district attorney for Columbia, Brent Cooper, requested TBI investigate the shooting.
According to TBI, the deputies responded to the gas station around 3 a.m. June 15 to a report of “possible drug activity and a couple fighting.” Dodson and a woman were in a car at the side of the building. After a “brief time,” Dodson pulled a gun and shot at the deputy.
The bullet hit the deputy’s vest. Both deputies returned fire and struck Dodson.
Dodson was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
TBI did not state the name of either deputy involved in the shooting. A voicemail was left with Sheriff Bucky Rowland requesting more information shortly after 4 p.m. June 15.
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