Brian Anthony Maddox, who charged officers with a steel baton Sunday night after yelling that he wasn’t going back to jail, remains hospitalized at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the chest.
Arrest warrants charging Maddox, 35, of Port Drive, with two counts of aggravated assault on police officers and one count of resisting arrest have been issued.
East Precinct Officer Joe Pennington stopped Maddox at 6:44 p.m. Sunday for driving 53 mph in a 35 mph zone on Broadmoor Drive. After running Maddox’s name on his laptop computer, Pennington saw that he was wanted for failure to be booked on a misdemeanor drug charge and had a significant arrest history.
Pennington walked back to the car, asked Maddox to get out, and began opening the car door. Maddox kicked it open, got out, grabbed Officer Pennington’s shirt, and yelled he was not going back to jail. Pennington pushed Maddox away, prompting Maddox to deploy a steel asp baton similar to the model issued to Metro police officers. Maddox charged at Pennington and swung at his head and upper body. Pennington retreated to the back of his patrol car, all the while telling Maddox to drop the baton.
Officer Bill Bolan, who was on his way to another call, saw Pennington involved in a confrontation with Maddox and stopped to assist. Bolan yelled for Maddox to drop the baton. Maddox then turned toward Bolan, yelled that Bolan was going to have to shoot him, and ran toward Bolan with the baton over his shoulder. Bolan began backing away and yelled for Maddox to stop. Maddox kept coming. When he got within just a few feet of Bolan, with the baton still raised, Bolan fired his police department issued pistol. Maddox was hit, and the officers called for an ambulance.
Police department policy provides that officers may use deadly force when they have a reasonable belief that the action is immediately necessary to prevent serious bodily injury or death. The preliminary investigation shows that Bolan fired on Maddox in self-defense to avoid being struck with the steel baton. Officer Bolan, 36, is on routine administrative assignment while the investigation progresses.
Brian Anthony Maddox
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