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Deputy Hurt in Traffic Crash during Response to Stabbing

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Release Date: November 23, 2007

A Shelby County Sheriff's detective was hurt just before 7 o'clock tonight in a traffic crash on Hacks Cross Road near Lowrance.

Witnesses said the unmarked Sheriff’s Office cruiser collided with another vehicle after Deputy Vincent Jennings swerved to miss a person walking across Hacks Cross Road.

Detective Jennings and the two people in the other car, a 23 year-old man and a 21-year-old woman, were not seriously injured. All three were treated and released from Methodist Hospital Germantown.

At the time of the crash, Detective Jennings was responding with his blue lights and siren to a stabbing in the 9400 block of Forest Wind Cove in South-East Shelby County.

Travis Griggs

Travis Griggs

Travis Griggs, 22, had stabbed his 21 year-old brother, Christopher Griggs, and threatened to stab another man at the house.

After the stabbing, Travis Griggs ran from the home but was captured within minutes by Sheriff’s Deputies on Holmes Road near Hacks Cross Road.

Travis Griggs was charged with two counts of Aggravated Assault and Domestic Violence.

 

 

For further information, contact:
Steve Shular
Public Information Officer
Shelby County Sheriff's Office
201 Poplar Ave - Suite 902
Memphis, TN 38103
Phone: 901-545-5532
FAX (901) 545-3310
Email: shulars@shelby-sheriff.org

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