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Shooting fatal traffic crash (update)
Cocke County authorities have released additional information in the Thursday morning shooting and traffic fatality in the Parrottsville community. Deputy Max laughter says he responded to the residence of Jayden Norton,7, on Shenandoah Way at 12:37 a.m. in reference to a shooting. He found the boy lying on the front porch unconscious, with his grandmother Angela Russell crouched over the boy. Mrs. Russell was holding a towel to the chest of the boy and a .357 revolver was lying nearby on the porch. The officer said he could find no pulse on the boy. Mrs. Russell told investigators that her 54 year-old husband, Christopher Allen Russell, had awakened the seven year-old from bed and had taken him to the porch to show him the gun. "While the two were on the porch, the gun discharged striking Jayden in the chest," the officer said. Christopher Russell was not at the home when officers arrived. Officer Laughter said while responding to the shooting report, he was flagged down by a man in a black Chevrolet Silverado, who told him where the residence was. The officers at the time did not know they were talking with the alleged shooter. While headed to the shooting scene, Deputy Lt. Steve Johnson came upon a crash involving the black Chevrolet Silverado, driven by Mr, Russell. The driver died in the crash, after leaving the roadway, plunging down and embankment and striking a tree and culvert off North Highway 340. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is assisting the Cocke County Sheriff's Department in it's investigation, and the Tennessee Highway Patrol investigated the fatal crash. Autopsies were conducted Friday on both victims.
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