On September 27 at approximately 1:35 p.m., the Knox County Sheriff’s Office responded to a wreck on Middlebrook Pike at Frederick Road.

According to the preliminary investigation, 34 year old Jeffery Held was travelling westbound and in the process of turning into the parking lot of a private business when he struck a Volkswagen Jetta travelling eastbound. The Jetta rolled down an embankment and came to rest upside down in a drainage pond.

According to a witness, Held did not attempt to check on the injured Jetta driver, and he fled the scene.

A K9 officer tracked Held in a nearby brush pile. Held resisted arrest, but was taken into custody and charged with driving on a revoked license, driving under the influence, leaving the scene of an accident, failure to render aid, resisting arrest, and open container law.

Held has a criminal history in Knox County of public intoxication and driving under the influence. He also has a history of a 2011 DUI in Union County.

Shooting suspect, 34 year old Timothy Cunningham is now in the Knox County Detention Facility charged with 2 counts of attempted first degree murder and one count of aggravated assault.  His total bond is $125,000.  He is also wanted by Anderson County for a failure to appear on a DUI charge.

According to the Incident Report, Carrie Hutcheson Lay told detectives that she, her husband Todd Lay and her father Johnny Hutcheson were at a residence at 6121 Ball Road, Lot #40.  She said a minor physical altercation occurred between Cunningham and Todd Lay for no reason.

She said the three left the residence and as they were in the driveway, Cunningham came from behind and grabbed her hair and left shoulder and stuck a handgun to the right temple of her head and stated that he was going to kill her.  Todd Lay then stepped forward and pushed his wife out of the way and Cunningham shot him two to three times.  Cunningham then pointed the gun at Johnny Hutcheson and fired several rounds grazing the side of his head.

Carrie said she tried to call 911 on her cell phone, but the suspect’s sister, Amanda Cunningham, grabbed the phone and fled the scene.  Lay called 911 using another phone in the car.

All the victims left in a car and came into contact with a Knox County Deputy who was in the area on an unrelated incident.  He called for an ambulance.  The two shooting victims were transported to U.T. Medical Center by Rural Metro.  Hutcheson was treated and released.  Lay underwent surgery overnight.