Police heard five gunshots on Dale Street, then spotted an armed man in the backyard of a residence. He complied with orders to put his hands up, then advised he hadn't realized officers were "so close by."
Though the suspect refused to exit his home, he yelled out of a window that he would, "kill officers...had C-4 inside and would blow it up." Police then shot non-lethal pepper balls into the room he occupied.
Shortly before noon, police responded to Walmart on Fort Henry Drive. A 69-year-old woman reported that while asleep in the back seat of her Kia Soul, an unknown female opened the door and entered the driver's seat.
At about 10 p.m., police were called to the Sunoco in Lynn Garden after a female made several threats: "there was going to be violence … someone is going to die tonight." She then asked another customer to dial 911 so she could try and disarm responding officers.
A Kingsport patrol officer on East Stone Drive spotted the driver of a pickup "hold his cell phone up about his head and begin to take pictures while the vehicle was in motion."
Shortly after 3 a.m., police were alerted to a fight outside Rain Nite Life on West Stone Drive. Upon arrival, they had to disperse "a large crowd spread over the front parking lot."
At 6 a.m., a 60-year-old resident of Jersey Street was awakened by someone kicking in her door. She then found an unknown woman in her home and had to forcibly push the intruder out of the house.
At about 9:40 p.m., officers responded to reports of indecent exposure at Bojangles' on Fort Henry Drive. Upon arrival, they found a woman, age 32, walking near the restaurant "completely nude."
At 5 a.m., an employee arriving to Home Depot noticed tire tracks around a security gate. They then spotted a pickup — merchandise "overflowing" from its bed — as it traveled across the parking lot and slammed through the closed fencing.
After locking herself in a gas station bathroom, a woman told police she had spotted her boyfriend's dead body in three locations: inside a fire pit, hanging in a car wash, and lying beside the river on Big Elm Road.
Police were alerted to a Kingsport man’s Facebook video, in which he dons a clown mask and makes “indirect threats to kill people” with a machete. About 12 hours later, officers spotted the suspect walking along West Stone Drive, again with the mask over his head.
Police were alerted to a man breaking things in a bathroom of the BP station on Highway 394. When questioned by a deputy, he explained how someone bailed him out of jail under specific conditions.
Police responded to a home on Morelock Street, where a resident reported his neighbor was "acting crazy" and doing doughnuts with a vehicle in the back yard.
The driver ignored lights and sirens while fleeing to a residence on Jennifer Street, then resisted officers, was pepper sprayed and taken to the ground.
A man and woman visited a John B. Dennis car lot to test-drive used vehicles. Both were told to be back in 10 minutes, but the male didn’t return his car for half an hour. The second vehicle — a 2004 Nissan Titan, taken by the female — was never returned.
