Three people are dead, including an 11-year-old girl, after a domestic shooting in Maury County early Friday.
The shooting occurred shortly before 6 a.m. on Double Branch Road. The Columbia Daily Herald reports the home is just north of Columbia, off Highway 31.
A man, identified as Nathanial Pipkin, is currently in custody as a suspect. Police say they used his phone to track him nearly 100 miles to Monteagle, after he allegedly fled the scene.
Rowland said the man’s mom and two other family members were the victims of the shooting, and of the five other family members home, one escaped through a window to call the police.
“Unfortunately we’ve had more than our fair share of tragedy in our county,” Sheriff Bucky Rowland said at a press conference Friday. “And once again, you know, our first responders, our law enforcement, they rise up. And our community rises up each time.”
Rowland said the man was found with multiple firearms and wearing body armor, but he was taken into custody without incident. Rowland added that the man had been arrested in March for unlawful possession of a weapon.
Three years ago, four teens and their mother were fatally shot in their home in Columbia. Investigators later determined the mother’s gunshot wound was self-inflicted.
“It’s a great place to live and raise a family,” Rowland said. “But, you know, there’s nothing happening here, or not happening here, that’s not happening all across the state of Tennessee and across our nation.”
WPLN’s Chas Sisk contributed to this report.
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