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A Tennessee District Legal professional has been charged with capturing at suspects who have been making an attempt to flee police in a getaway automotive.

Warren County District Legal professional Chris Stanford was charged with one rely of reckless endangerment after he discharged his weapon throughout a Smithville police chase final month.

Stanford even posed for a mugshot with jail garb over his go well with after handing himself in for reserving earlier this week.

The incident is now being probed by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Authorities say that it occurred whereas officers have been tailing suspect Caleb Brookins, 28 who was wished in connection to a triple homicide in Warren County.

Stanford, 43, from McMinnville, had been on the scene with deputies and was carrying physique armor and carrying a service weapon.

As a getaway automotive pushed by Brookin’s alleged confederate, Hannah Rose, 21, sped by way of Smithville, it out of the blue got here to a halt hanging a Homeland Safety officer and injuring his leg, stated the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Workplace.

Moments later, the DA pulled his firearm and fired three rounds towards Rose and Brookins who have been inside. Neither have been hit by the gunfire.

However his bullets struck a house on Bell Avenue, Smithville occupied by a girl and her three kids, stated TBI’s Monday assertion.

An indictment within the case states that Stanford confronted no quick menace when he discharged the weapon.

In accordance with the Tennessee Division of Insurance coverage and Commerce, the DA had not been POST-certified and took part in firearms coaching – which he claimed he had been.

On Monday, the DeKalb County Grand Jury returned the sealed indictment which charged Stanford with the felony rely.

After turning himself in on the DeKalb County Jail on Monday, Stanford was launched by authorities after he posted a $10,000 bond, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Workplace instructed The Tennessean.

Stanford is scheduled to make an look in DeKalb County Normal Classes Courtroom on January 7.

He’ll no longer be capable to prosecute the case in his personal county, in line with WTVF.