A man was critically wounded in a shooting that happened on Sunday afternoon on Woodbine Avenue. At around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 10, 2024, Knoxville Police Department officers were notified that a man who had been shot multiple times arrived at the Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center via a personal vehicle. The victim was transferred to…… MORE
Knoxville Police Department Homicide Unit detectives are investigating a deadly shooting that happened in the area of Magnolia Avenue and Harrison Street early Friday morning. At just before 5:30 a.m. on Friday, November 8, 2024, KPD officers responded to a report that two individuals were shouting at one another. Officers arrived on scene, on Harrison…… MORE
Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Renowned sports broadcaster for the University of Tennessee Bob Kesling Thursday announcing he will retire as the Voice of the Vols after the 2024-25 men’s basketball season. Kesling has enjoyed an incredible career that stretches over five decades, marking him as a pillar of the Vol Network and the iconic voice of…… MORE
Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating a car chase that ends in a deadly crash. Campbell County Sheriff’s Office Deputies tried to pull over a car in the Valley View community yesterday afternoon (Wednesday), but the driver, identified by THP as 25-year-old Cassie Miller, didn’t stop and fled from police. Miller then led deputies on a…… MORE
Maryville, TN (WOKI) Maryville Police solve a decades-old cold case making an arrest. The case centers on the 39-year-old cold case murder of Billy Wayne Hearon. Police have charged 62-year-old Roger Oody in his murder. Hearon was found dead in his home in Shady Acres Trailer Park, MPD said, adding that he had died from…… MORE
A 15-year-old male has been charged for making a threat of mass violence following a late-night Knoxville Police Department investigation. On Monday, November 4, 2024 at around 7:30 p.m., KPD detectives were made aware that the aforementioned male, a Bearden High School student, had made a verbal threat to commit an act of violence at…… MORE
UPDATE: The victim from the fatal hit-and-run crash that happened on Magnolia Avenue Friday night has been identified as Andrew Quayle, age 63. KPD crash reconstruction investigators are still working to identify the involved vehicle and driver. The car was described as a black SUV or crossover vehicle, which reportedly fled east on Magnolia Avenue…… MORE
Oakdale, TN (WOKI) A second man is sentenced in the death of a Roane County man. District Attorney Russell Johnson says 44 year-old Shane Douglas Parks was convicted and sentenced in the death of Robert Quenton McCullough in 2020. He is facing two concurrent 45-year sentences in the Tennessee Department of Corrections. Parks joins 39-year-old…… MORE
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is investigating after a device is found underneath a car in Tellico Plains. Investigators with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office went to a home in the 400 block of Shadden Road yesterday (Sunday) afternoon and found a device underneath a car on the property, the Knox…… MORE
The Knoxville Police Department is investigating after a man either jumped or fell from the 11th Street Parking Garage on Saturday night. At around 7:15 p.m. on Saturday, November 2, 2024, KPD officers responded to the area of the 11th Street Parking Garage, where a 21-year-old man was critically injured after falling from an upper floor of the parking garage.…… MORE
