KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — The Knoxville Police Department said it identified, interviewed and then released a suspect after interviewing about a dozen people at the Safety Building on Monday morning following an overnight shooting in West Knoxville that left one person dead.
Officers responded around 3 a.m. Monday to a call about a shooting at the Lovell Road overpass at I-40. When they arrived, they found a vehicle with a dead man, the release said.
KPD identified the victim as 28-year-old Michael Lee Chambers Jr. from Knoxville.
According to a preliminary investigation, the man had been involved in an earlier altercation with other people at another location.
KPD said a case file will be presented to the Knox County District Attorney General's Office for review at the conclusion of the investigation.