Michael Raymond Hilton

How they died

Deadly force

Officers and deputies spotted a car traveling along the Appalachian Highway that was the subject of a BOLO (Be On the Lookout) in connection to a robbery that occurred about 7 p.m. in Jacksboro. Officers initiated a traffic stop, but the driver refused to stop. Officers pursued onto I-75. The driver crashed into several vehicles stopped in a construction zone, including a cruiser driven by a trooper with the Tennessee Highway Patrol who was parked behind a disabled other. During reported efforts to take the driver into custody, a Caryville officer and a Campbell County deputy shot and killed him.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Michael Raymond Hilton, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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