Suspect in custody after Tennessee deputy found fatally shot inside burning home

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A suspect has been arrested after an hours-long standoff with authorities who accuse the man of fatally shooting a Tennessee deputy and setting her home on fire.

James Jackson Conn, 27, was booked on suspicion of first-degree murder and aggravated arson in the killing of Savannah Puckett, 22, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said in a news release.The agency said he was taken into custody after state and local authorities descended on his home in Smyrna, southeast of Nashville. A neighbor toldthat the officers arrived around 6 a.m. and demanded his surrender through a bullhorn.

Puckett, who had been a deputy with the Robertson County Sheriff's Office for four years, was found by a colleague after she didn't report to her 5 p.m. shift Sunday, the sheriff's office said in aThe colleague found her home"engulfed in flames," the agency said. The deputy tried to enter the home but couldn’t due to the blaze.

 

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