A Tennessee district attorney faces a reckless endangerment charge after shooting at a fugitive several times and hitting a home with a woman and her three children inside. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced the grand jury charge against District Attorney Chris Stanford. His district covers Van Buren and Warren counties. The indictment says that as the incident unfolded in Smithville, 60 miles southeast of Nashville, on Nov. 21, a bullet Stanford shot from a handgun went through a front porch patio chair, through an exterior wall and into the living room wall of the home, the Associated Press reports. The woman and children weren’t hurt.
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The indictment says that Stanford fired the shot “unlawfully, intentionally and recklessly.” There was no immediate threat to him or others, he wasn’t aiming the handgun, and “just held it out and shot” without using the gun’s sights, the indictment says. Stanford was released after posting a $10,000 bond. The Warren County Sheriff’s Office said authorities were pursuing suspects after finding three dead bodies at a house and at an adjacent building. The suspects were sighted in DeKalb County. One of them was taken into custody without incident. Stanford and other law enforcement officials chased the other suspect, who was a passenger in a car. While trying to help the suspect flee, the driver struck a homeland security officer with the car. Stanford said he fired shots in response to the homeland security agent being hit.
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