Posted March 31, 2017 9:44 am by Comments

By Jennifer Cruz

Daniel Hendrix was a corrections deputy with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office who turned 26 just hours before he was fatally shot. (Photo: Facebook)
An off-duty corrections officer celebrating his birthday with friends at his Chattanooga home early Wednesday morning ended in his death after he refused to put down a gun.
It’s unclear why Daniel Hendrix, 26, became agitated with his friends, armed himself with a gun, and threatened the two women, both off-duty Chattanooga police officers, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
The two women were able to flee from the home and call 911 around 1:30 in the morning, the agency said. Then, two on-duty Chattanooga officers responded to the scene and found Hendrix in his backyard.
Witnesses told TBI that Hendrix, still armed with his handgun, became increasingly agitated and ignored repeated commands to drop the weapon.
Without releasing specific details, the agency said the situation “further escalated” prompting one of the officers to fire his service weapon four times. Hendrix was hit and later transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
The agency is still investigating what caused Hendrix to “have changed his demeanor,” but did say he had been drinking.
TBI did not

Source: Guns.com

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