Sevier County Sheriff’s deputy was arresting a fleeing female suspect when a second male suspect appeared and yelled “I’ve got a gun, motherf*****!”
The deputy saw the male suspect suddenly squat down and aim what appeared to be a firearm in his direction. Fearing for his life, the deputy fired six shots in the direction of the male suspect.
A second deputy and a medic restrain the female suspect while the first deputy calls for backup and orders the male suspect to lie down.
A few minutes later the first deputy appears to suffer from a panic attack and “may have suffered some type of cardiac event as a result of this assault by both male and female.” Around the 5:25 minute mark the deputy begins breathing heavily and starts wailing.
The medic quickly intervenes as the panicking deputy becomes confused and delusional.
According to the Police disclaimer on YouTube,
The deputy reported he then notified dispatchers he was in foot pursuit of a female subject who was running through the field and that he suspected her of having a warrant out that was not related to the current incident. When the deputy encountered Cody at the end of the field where it met Sharp Road, he ordered her to put her hands up and walk to him so that he could handcuff her. At that time, a male EMT helped the deputy apprehend Cody. The deputy’s body camera footage shows Cody restrained on the ground when the deputy asked her why she had been running, to which she answered her mother had told her to.
The deputy said while the EMT helped him detain Cody, he heard a male voice coming from a short distance behind him yell, “I’ve got a gun, motherf*****!”
The deputy reported he turned and noticed a white male suspect, who was later identified as Tina Cody’s boyfriend Brian Mullinax. The deputy said Mullinax was “pacing wildly” on the porch of a nearby trailer before squatting and aiming an object at the deputy that “appeared to be a firearm in his hand.”
The deputy said he immediately fired his gun seven times “in defense of my life, the EMT, and the apprehended subject.” The deputy reported he notified dispatchers and his supervisor that shots were fired and he needed help because he had identified the male subject as having a firearm.
Shortly after he called dispatch, the deputy said the subject dropped the object and put his hands in the air before exiting the porch and lying on the ground until responding units arrived and took him into custody. Detective’s notes on the incident report indicated the deputy was taken to the hospital with injuries and “may have suffered some type of cardiac event as a result of this assault by both male and female.”