Shooting at Watts Bar Nuclear Plant

[Marlin]

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.



http://www.wate.com/story/22034179/security-guard-fired-upon-at-nuclear-plant

[BStella]

Holy Cow!     

[Stix]

Any thought if this was a story from the security officer who "Barney Fifed"? I am referring to making up a story because of inadvertantly discharging their weapon.  The officer then shot the vehicle door and created the story to keep from getting the BS for an inadvertant discharge.  I have seen / heard others try to drum up a story and it never works.  I guess ballistics will determine if another weapon was involved or not.  If the story isn't true, this security officer is toast.

[Zog]

Anyone hear what this was all about?

[Rennhack]

Investigators are running down leads in an early Sunday shootout between a security officer at Watt Bar Nuclear Plant and an individual on who fired multiple shots from a boat on Chickamauga Lake near Spring City, Tenn., property.

A spokesman for the FBI, which is handling the case because of the sensitivity of the nuclear plant, was scant on details and declined today to say how promising those leads are.

"The reason we're involved is because of the critical infrastructure and we want to make sure it's not something that's related to the plant," said spokesman Marshall Stone. "obviously people do use the water out there, and there could be hunting or shooting or other things that don't include an attack on the plant."

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