Authorities: Suspect in Tennessee stabbing was truck driver

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Authorities in Tennessee say a man who fatally stabbed three employees and wounded a customer at a travel center was a truck driver from North Carolina. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday that the Knox County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call at the Pilot Travel Center off Interstate 40 to find a person with stab wounds outside the store and 33-year-old Idris Abdus-Salaam armed with a knife outside. The bureau said a deputy shot and killed Abdus-Salaam after he refused to drop the weapon. Authorities pronounced 57-year-old Joyce Whaley, 51-year-old Patricia Denise Nibbe and 41-year-old Nettie R. Spencer dead at the scene. The fourth victim remains hospitalized.

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