BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. — The Blount County Sheriff's Office said a man was in custody and another man was in critical condition after a shooting Wednesday morning.
BCSO said at around 10 a.m. on Wednesday, deputies responded to a home on Samples Road after getting a call saying there had just been a shooting. They were joined by officers from the Alcoa Police Department who helped find the suspect — Benjamin Absher, 29, from Louisville.
Absher was taken into custody. The sheriff's office said deputies also found a 63-year-old man outside the home with a gunshot wound. The man was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center.
BCSO said Absher was being held at the Blount County Correctional Facility on a $200,000 bond and was charged with attempted criminal homicide.
