KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. — The Knox County Sheriff's Office released bodycam footage weeks after a man was hospitalized and died after being in county custody. The Knox County District Attorney General's ...

Within minutes after David Batts entered the Knox County jail on Jan. 7, Knox County sheriff's officers pepper-sprayed, shocked him with a Taser four times and punched him as they tried to get him to ...

Nationally renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump is representing the family of David Batts, the former Knoxville Area Transit employee who died after he left the Roger D. Wilson Detention Facility ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - The Knox County Sheriff’s Office released body camera footage of a man who died after being in ...

Knox County Sheriff’s Office jail staffers working the day former Knoxville Area Transit employee David Batts died after he was detained there will not be charged, attorney Troy Jones confirmed to ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Knox County District Attorney’s Office released on Thursday, Jan. 23 that no charges will be filed and no further investigation conducted after a man died in law ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — An autopsy report has confirmed that the death of David Batts, a man who died after being in Knox County custody in January, was caused by acute meningitis and sepsis. 6 News ...

The Knox County Sheriff's Office said Monday it would release bodycam footage weeks after a man was hospitalized and died after being in county custody. The sheriff's office said it would host a press ...

David Leon Batts was born on October 13, 1978, in Knoxville to Larry Lavell Batts and Monnie Marie Flack Nolan. He was a graduated of Fulton High School. He is preceded in death by grandparents Bishop ...

David Batts being detained by Knox County deputies [Photo: Knox County Sheriff's Office] David Batts, a 46-year-old employee of Knoxville Area Transit (KAT), died this month after an encounter with ...