Three workers fatally stabbed at Knoxville truck stop, suspect shot and killed

wate ^ | Apr 7, 2020 | Gregory Raucoules

[Main Street]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – A stabbing suspect who was shot and killed after fatally stabbing three women and hospitalizing a fourth at a Knoxville truck stop early Tuesday has been identified by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

The deceased suspect, Idris Abdus-Salaam, 33, was a truck driver from Durham, North Carolina.

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

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

The fourth victim, who was a customer and has not been identified, remains hospitalized.

The report of a stabbing at the truck stop at 7210 Strawberry Plains Pike was made just before 7 a.m.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation confirmed three female victims were fatally stabbed and another woman was transported to a nearby hospital.

The condition of the hospitalized individual is unknown at the time.

The stabbing suspect, Abdus-Salaam, was shot and killed by law enforcement, TBI spokesperson Leslie Earhart said. Idris Abdus-Salaam of Durham, North Carolina. Abdus-Salaam is alleged to have fatally stabbed three workers at a Pilot Travel Center in East Knox County and injuring a customer before being shot and killed by a Knox County Sheriff’s Office deputy.. (WNCN photo)

Upon arrival, officers observed at least one person with stab wounds outside of the store. A man, armed with a knife and identified by witnesses as the suspect, was also observed in the parking lot.

Officers confronted the individual who refused to drop the weapon. At some point during the encounter, one of the officers fired shots, striking the man. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Pilot Company CEO Jimmy Haslam confirmed in a statement that all three victims were Pilot employees.

“Today is a difficult day for the Pilot Company family. We are devastated to confirm the loss of three team members and the injury of a guest after an act of violence at our Strawberry Plains, Tennessee, location this morning. It is with heavy hearts that we extend our deepest sympathy to the families and loved ones of the victims. We are providing support and counseling to the families and our team. We are working closely with local authorities. Please keep these families in your thoughts and prayers.” Pilot Company CEO Jimmy Haslam

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation will launch a probe into the officer-involved shooting. Knox County District Attorney Charme Allen released a statement about the decision for the TBI to take over the investigation.

“Historically, our policy has been for KPD to investigate any KCSO officer-involved shooting and KCSO to investigate any KPD officer-involved shooting. TBI has always investigated all in-custody deaths of inmates for our jurisdiction. Recently, in order to have uniform consistency in the investigation of these incidents, Chief Thomas, Sheriff Spangler, and I have discussed using the TBI for all officer-involved shootings. We have decided to follow the majority of our colleagues across the state, and I will now request that TBI conduct all of our officer-involved shootings for both KPD and KCSO.” Knox County District Attorney Charme Allen

Watch TBI Public Information Officer Leslie Earhart’s full update from the scene here:

This is a developing story and we’ll continue to update the details as they become available.

[Main Street]

3 victims, suspect identified in stabbing at Pilot

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating a stabbing and an officer involved shooting incident after Knoxville gas station employees and a suspect were killed Tuesday morning. From left to right: Patricia 'Denise' Nibbe, Joyce Whaley and Nettie Spencer were all Pilot employees. / Source: WVLT News

TBI identified the three deceased victims as 57-year-old Joyce Whaley, 51-year-old Patricia Denise Nibbe and 41-year-old Nettie R. Spencer. The deceased suspect was identified as 33-year-old Idris Abdus-Salaam, a North Carolina truck driver,

Three Pilot employees are dead and one customer injured after a stabbing and an officer-involved shooting at an East Knox County Pilot truck stop.

According to the TBI, the Knox County Sheriff's Office received a report of the incident at the Strawberry Plains Pike location around 7 am on Tuesday. Upon arrival officers observed at least one person with stab wounds and a man identified by witnesses as the suspect armed with a knife in the Pilot parking lot.

According to officials, officers confronted the suspect and when he refused to drop the weapon, one of the officers fired shots, striking the man. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. He has not yet been identified.

Four female victims were stabbed, the three employees were pronounced dead at the scene and the fourth who was a customer was transported to a local hospital. The status of her condition is unknown.

Pilot CEO Jimmy Haslam released a statement regarding the incident.

"Today is a difficult day for the Pilot Company family. We are devastated to confirm the loss of three team members and the injury of a guest after an act of violence at our Strawberry Plains, Tennessee, location this morning. It is with heavy hearts that we extend our deepest sympathy to the families and loved ones of the victims. We are providing support and counseling to the families and our team. We are working closely with local authorities.

Please keep these families in your thoughts and prayers."

The Knox County Sheriff's Office confirmed that no officers were hurt in the incident.

"I wanted to reach out to the families who have suffered great loss today, to the victim who is hospitalized, to the employees and everyone at Pilot Corporation, to Police, Fire, EMS and to the citizens of Knox County," officials with the Knox County Sheriff's Office said.

https://www.wvlt.tv/content/news/Multiple-victims-reported-in-stabbing-at-Strawberry-Plains-Pike-Pilot-569434131.html

[Paladin2]

Idris Abdus-Salaam shoulda been put on a ventilator earlier.

[NonValueAdded]

SJS

[Blood of Tyrants]

Sudden jihad syndrome.

[rfp1234]

Hey, I got my degrees from SJS (U). I resemble that remark ;-)

[HighSierra5]

And people are worried about the virus. I’ll bet a lot of the muzzies are chomping at the bit to get back to killing.

[rfp1234]

Obambi / Biden will say don’t jump to conclusions, it was a workplace incident. Tennessee is right next to NC.

[cherry]

yep, they’re winning....

[Paladin2]

SJ [Super Jeep]:

[IronJack]

Was his bacon too crisp?

I notice the pussy only attacked middle-aged women. Surely at a truck stop there was some burly rig wrangler he could have taken on to prove his courage to Allah.

I guess there were no crippled children to go nuts on.

[rktman]

Me likey.

[tflabo]

He reached his final hot destination without the truck.

[MayflowerMadam]

Whoa. We’re about a mile from a Pilot Travel Center just outside of Knoxville. But the location is on the other side of the city. We don’t hear about this stuff happening often.

[ocrp1982]

Meanwhile, our Gov’t “intelligence agencies” and the dems and their media propagandists continue their 24/7 attempt to frame our president.
Our “intelligence community” monitors US, the Patriotic American citizen and continues to completely ignore all signs of subversion by outside influence in their suicidal quest for social and political correctness.
State authorities release violent criminals from prison to protect them from the Wuhan Virus while replacing them with arrested Americans taking a drive alone in their cars or, parked alone at the beach for violating state gov’t stay at home edicts.
The states implementing those insane policies are ALL totally controlled by Liberals. When this is over will the people of those Liberal states change? Not a chance.

[Secret Agent Man]

angry black muslim

sorry for the redundancy

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Jeez, another jihadist maniac.

[freepersup]

Idris Abdus-Salaam

Am I to believe that this name is on an original birth certificate for this piece of dog Shiite?

Looks like a Fred Jackson specimen, if I was a betting man.

Follow all leads in degrees of separation, until every single stone is overturned.

This scumbag deserved a painful death.

A couple of eighteen wheelers tied to his arms and legs, and pulling in opposite directions is too good for this filth.

Islam-

A war plan,

supported by a political system,

masquerading as a religion.

Burn in hell Mohammedans!

[Sequoyah101]

I hope it is now at least unrecognizable.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Surely at a truck stop there was some burly rig wrangler he could have taken on to prove his courage to Allah.

At a place like that, there might have been a big, hairy biker who would do in a pinch. I'm certain Abus-Salaam could have taken him on. /sarc

[DesertRhino]

Three nice hardworking American women, murdered by another God damned islamic import. Thanks again W Bush. Thanks again Obutthole. Thanks again Hillary and Facebook for your idiotic Arab Spring. Thanks again GOPe Cheap labor express.

Seeing those sweet ladies photos against his typical content look on his face makes me so damned angry.