Elizabethton Man identified as victim in Saturday morning fatal officer-involved shooting

One man has died following an officer-involved shooting early Saturday morning in Elizabethton.

According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, two officers were called to a residence on Hattie Avenue around 12:45 a.m due to an unauthorized person being at the house. That indivudual, later identified as A.B Carr, 31, of Elizabethton, reportedly refused to leave, causing the officers to come inside the residence. The TBI statement says when the officers approached Carr, he assaulted them with an object, causing the officers to fire at Carr, striking and fatally wounding him.

One of the officers suffered minor injuries, but was treated at the hospital and has since been released. At this time, the TBI continues to investigate the incident and no further information is being released at this time. This now marks the 11 officer-involved shooting in the region in 2019, and eight of those have resulted in the suspect being fatally wounded.

Carr was previously arrested in Elizabethon on June 28th on charges of desecration of a venerated object, resisting arrest, vandalism, and disorderly conduct after police say he threw a retired flag box containing an American and POW flag at the Veterans Memorial. More information on that story is available here.

Courtesy of Image: Carter County Jail