SPRING CITY (WATE) - Authorities are searching for the person who fired multiple gunshots at a TVA security guard early Sunday morning at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Rhea County.
The shooting forced TVA officials to declare a security emergency at the plant, placing it on immediate lockdown.
TVA says the Watts Bar security officer was on his routine patrol just before 2 a.m., monitoring plant property that borders the Tennessee River, when he noticed a boat in the water at the bottom of a boat ramp that leads up to the plant.
It was after he confronted him that officials say the boater shot multiple times at the officer, who then fired back and called for backup.
By the time assistance arrived, the man had sped away.
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