By Becky Campbell, Johnson City Press
Published February 23rd, 2010
PINEY FLATS – Neighbors around Stage Coach Trailer Park were surprised and concerned when law enforcement descended on their community following a domestic shooting Tuesday afternoon. The incident at 405 Austin Springs Road, Lot 8, started around 3:15 p.m., when a man shot his girlfriend, then waved the gun around until deputies retreated.
It wasn’t over until just before 8 p.m. when Sullivan County S.W.A.T. members found 48-year-old Terry Stonecipher dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Sheriff Wayne Anderson.
The shooting happened when Stonecipher said he “accidentally” shot 58-year-old Kathy Barnett twice while cleaning his gun, Anderson said. Stonecipher apparently shot himself a short time after deputies backed away from his mobile home and after he stopped talking to them by cell phone.
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