Pigeon Forge, TN (WOKI) UPDATE 2/8/24: Police identify the victim at the center of a vulnerable adult abuse case in Pigeon Forge.
Pigeon Forge Police Department officials say vulnerable adult, 46-year-old Joseph Blevins of North Carolina, died in connection to alleged abuse from two people.
PFPD officers served warrants for abuse of a vulnerable adult on Dustin Lee Suttles and Katelyn Renee Elliott.
A vulnerable adult is defined in Tennessee as anyone over 18 who cannot care for themselves because of some sort of mental or physical disfunction.
The investigation remains ongoing.
ORIGINAL STORY: The Pigeon Forge Police Department is investigating after the death of a vulnerable adult.
PFPD officers have obtained warrants for abuse of a vulnerable adult on two people, identified as Dustin Suttles and Katelyn Elliott.
A vulnerable adult is defined in Tennessee as anyone over 18 who cannot care for themselves because of some sort of mental or physical disfunction.
This investigation comes after PFPD was told by a North Carolina Sheriff’s Department about the victim, who was from there.
