Police killings
2013-2020

A.B. Carr

Male, White

Date of the incident: 12/28/2019

Elizabethton, Carter, TN
600 Hattie Ave

About 12:45 a.m., two officers were sent to a house regarding an unauthorized visitor being in the home who was in violation of an order of protection. When A.B. Carr reportedly ignored orders to leave, the officers entered the home and fought with Carr who allegedly assaulted the officers with a metal object. Officers reportedly first attempted non-lethal force on Carr, and then shot and killed him.