Authorities name driver fatally shot by deputies in Memphis after he sped toward them

Authorities accidental they person identified a antheral who was fatally changeable by sheriff’s deputies aft helium sped toward them successful a conveyance arsenic the officers were serving a hunt warrant successful a Memphis neighborhood

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Authorities accidental they person identified a antheral who was fatally changeable by sheriff’s deputies aft helium sped toward them successful a conveyance portion the officers were serving a drug-related hunt warrant successful a Memphis vicinity Friday.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says the antheral who died successful the incidental was 30-year-old James Q. Hampton.

Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said deputies were serving the high-risk cause warrant that day erstwhile a antheral who was waiting successful a conveyance drove toward a SWAT squad astatine precocious velocity successful the Orange Mound neighborhood.

Deputies opened fire, sidesplitting the driver, Bonner said. No deputies were hurt.

Authorities were “working to independently find the bid of events starring to the shooting,” the bureau said successful a statement.

Three radical were arrested successful the hunt and look drug-related charges, tribunal records show. One of them besides faces a complaint for having a weapon during a unsafe felony, and different faces an further complaint of stealing a car. Arrest affidavits described the hunt warrant determination arsenic a “base of operations” for radical progressive successful a cause trafficking organization.

During the search, deputies recovered respective firearms with high-capacity magazines and a handgun equipped with a Glock switch, a instrumentality that turns a pistol into an automatic weapon, Bonner said. They besides recovered respective pounds of marijuana, a fewer Xanax and oxycodone pills, and thousands of dollars successful currency astatine that spot and successful a backyard adjacent door, which 4 others utilized to tally away, an apprehension affidavit says.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is looking into the shooting, which came six days aft 9 radical were changeable astatine an Orange Mound park. Two men were killed, and 7 different radical were wounded but survived. No arrests person been made.

It besides took spot 2 weeks aft Memphis Police Officer Joseph McKinney was killed successful a shootout that developed portion officers were investigating a suspicious vehicle. One fishy besides was killed.