Another Suicide As Cops Attempt To Serve Eviction Papers

In Blount County, Tennessee, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports:

• A Blount County man is dead this [week] from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, fired as officers attempted to serve a writ of possession on his house, Sheriff Jim Berrong said. Berrong said it was not a foreclosure and that the paperwork was "basically an eviction notice."

For the story, see Sheriff: Man kills self as officers attempt to serve eviction papers.

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