TN Cop Jumps in Bed of Pickup Truck Fleeing Stop, Then Shoots Driver

[SeanTX]

This makes me think of other situations where cops got in the way of fleeing vehicles so they would "have" to shoot the driver.

Now they're jumping on board and going for a ride, and of course just have to shoot to save themselves -- couldn't just let this one get away -- or else we'd have death and mayhem on the roadways.

I wonder what the "911 call" from the Ruby Tuesday was about -- probably nothing even serious, which is how these things often start, some "concerned" busy-body dialing 9-1-1 over little or nothing.

http://wate.com/2016/03/13/deadly-officer-involved-shooting-in-lenoir-city/

Suspect shot to death by Lenoir City police officer
WATE 6 On Your Side Staff Published: March 13, 2016, 9:59 am Updated: March 14, 2016, 7:02 pm


LENOIR CITY (WATE) – The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating after a man was shot and killed by a police officer in Lenoir City.

District Attorney General Russell Johnson says Joshua Grubb, 30, originally of Clinton, was shot multiple times by Officer Tyrel Lorenz, 29, around 1 a.m. Sunday at the Bimbo’s convenience store/restaurant/gas station off the Highway 321 exit on Interstate I-75.

Johnson says the incident started with a 911 call from the Ruby Tuesday across the street about three people who had just left the parking lot in a pickup truck. He says Officer Lorenz was questioning the three as they were getting gas at Bimbo’s and was in the process of handcuffing one of them when the driver, later identified as Grubb, sped off.

Lorenz ordered the driver to stop several times before he “somehow ended up in the back bed of the pickup truck,” according to Johnson. He continued to order Grubb to stop the truck and apparently shot Grubb as the truck was entering Highway 321. The truck kept going on the wrong side of the road, going over the highway overpass above I-75 and into a utility pole.

Officer Lorenz was not injured. He immediately got out of the truck and started trying to help Grubb, who was pronounced dead when emergency responders arrived.

Lorenz is on paid administrative leave during the investigation, which is standard procedure.