KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A police officer drives over a registered sex offender from Georgia who was traveling with a missing 11-year-old girl from Tennessee, hitting three officers in a crash early Friday morning. The authorities announced that he had been shot to death.
The investigation into the girl’s disappearance sent Knox County sheriff’s deputies and several other law enforcement agencies to the Tennessee-Georgia border, the sheriff’s office said in a statement on social media. The statement said the suspect did not comply with commands and used the vehicle as a weapon, prompting officers to open fire.
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The man was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. Three Knox County sheriff’s detectives suffered non-life-threatening injuries, the statement said.
A registered sex offender in Georgia was shot and killed by police as he tried to flee with an underage girl.
According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, suspect Edward Ahrens, 38, was seen heading south on Interstate 75 into Georgia on January 30th with a child who had been reported missing. It’s been found. The agency said agents from multiple agencies pursued the vehicle exiting the interstate and then confronted Ahrens. At least four people opened fire on the suspect as he tried to hit the officer with his vehicle, the statement said. The girl was not injured.
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Ahrens was listed on Georgia’s sex offender registry, WTVC-TV reported. The Catoosa County Clerk of Courts told the station that Ahrens pleaded guilty to child sexual exploitation in 2003 and was convicted of nine counts of child sexual exploitation in 2008 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. .
