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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Fourth victim of Tennessee truck stop stabbing released from hospital
2020-04-09
[CBS17] The fourth victim in a stabbing spree that claimed the lives of three Knoxville truck stop workers has been released from the hospital, The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation confirmed Wednesday.

Officials announced the fourth victim, who sustained injuries during the attack, has been released from the hospital in a TBI Newsroom release posted Wednesday morning.

Idris Abdus-Salaam, 33, was shot and killed by a Knox County deputy after fatally stabbing three women and hospitalizing a fourth at a Pilot Travel Center on Strawberry Plains Pike at Interstate-40 in East Knox County early Tuesday.

TBI did not release a motive in the attack.

The three deceased victims were all employed at the Pilot Travel Center. They have been identified as:

Joyce Whaley, 57
Patricia Denise Nibbe, 51
Nettie R. Spencer, 41

The fourth victim was a customer at the truck stop and has not been identified.

The Knox County District Attorney’s Office announced following the shooting that local officials have agreed that the TBI will conduct all officer-involved shootings investigations related to Knox County and Knoxville law enforcement agencies.

Abdus-Salaam was a truck driver who lived in Durham. CBS 17 confirmed Abdus-Salaam was arrested in Wake County in April 2018 for eluding police.

He worked as a correctional officer with the North Carolina Department of Safety from August 2014 to May 2019.

When he left the department, he was an officer at Central Prison in Raleigh, DPS said.
WBIR adds:
Notes believed to be from the suspect who stabbed three truck stop employees to death Tuesday suggested he may not have been mentally well. A source close to the investigation showed WBIR pages of the notebook he said law enforcement recovered from Idris Abdus Salaam's truck.

The notebook the source said was found in the truck contains graphic writing believed to be from Abdus-Salaam.

It suggested he may not be mentally well.

Because of the graphic nature of the writing and because law enforcement has not yet confirmed or denied the existence of this notebook, WBIR is not sharing the full text.

A public records search showed a number of speeding violations on Abdus-Salaam's record. In 2018, he faced a criminal charge in Wake County, North Carolina for eluding arrest/fleeing.

TBI said Abdus-Salaam had no criminal record in Tennessee.

Tuesday, a TBI spokesperson confirmed two witnesses attempted to subdue him during the attack.
Posted by:Fred

#11  Declare his mosque a terrorist recruiting station. Arrest all the members and convert it to a pig farm.
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-04-09 16:50  

#10  Coroners should classify a new cause of death.

Died of : Islam
Posted by: Dron66046   2020-04-09 12:52  

#9  Title could have said "Only Survivor Released from Hospital"
Posted by: Clem   2020-04-09 09:37  

#8  Religion of piss (but that last word is pronounced peace, with a nice ME accent...)
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-09 09:15  

#7  George Dubya stands by his comments.
Posted by: Clem   2020-04-09 08:59  

#6  Islam IS a mental disease.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-04-09 08:58  

#5  But, but, he had the same name as a big teevee star. He couldn't have been a bad guy...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-04-09 08:21  

#4  Ditto, JFM.
Posted by: Clem   2020-04-09 07:45  

#3  On the other hand, JFM, you can make a case that Islam is a mental disease.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-09 06:49  

#2  Every time someone in France goes in a mudering spree (most of the time while screaming Allah Akbar) and the MSM says it was due to psychitrical reasons I look at the religion and calculate probaility

Since the beginning it is a 12 Musilm out of 12 attackers. Probaility is 0.86 on 10 billion. I love maths
Posted by: JFM   2020-04-09 06:33  

#1  Idris Abdus-Salaam ... TBI did not release a motive in the attack.

We can guess.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-09 03:44  

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