State police: Deputies fatally shoot man in West Tennessee
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}State police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man by deputies in rural West Tennessee.
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Susan Niland said it happened early Tuesday after a robbery at a Decatur County gas station.
Niland said responding county deputies tried to stop a car matching the description of one involved in the robbery. She said the driver drove off the road and down an embankment.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Deputies followed and got into an altercation with the driver. Niland said shots were fired and the driver, identified as 35-year-old Jackson resident Charles Dove, was killed.
Niland said authorities found a gun on Dove, but it isn't clear if he fired it. She said five deputies were involved in the shooting, but it isn't known how many shot Dove.