An investigation is underway after a man dies at the hospital from a gunshot wound.

Knox County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the 6500 block of Old Maynardville Pike yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon and found a man with gunshot wounds who was taken to the hospital. They say this appears to be an isolated/targeted incident.

KCSO is asking anyone who may have witnessed the incident or anyone in that area at Brown Gap with video surveillance to contact them.

Please call Major Crimes Detectives at 865-215-2243 if you have any information.

The Knox County Sheriff’s Office releasing more information in a fatal hit and run accident in west Knox county.

It happened Monday on Lovell Road at Outlet Drive and involved pick-up truck and a motorcycle.

Investigators say the motorcycle driven by Raymundo Salinas was stopped at a red light when the pick-up driven by Donald Bowman hit the motorcycle then left the scene.

Bowman abandoned his vehicle on Gilbert Road and was later arrested at his home.

Charges are pending and the case will be turned over to the Knox County District Attorney’s office upon completion of the investigation.

Effective Wednesday, November 29, the burn ban is lifted at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Although precipitation, cooler temperatures and shorter days allow for campfires to resume, fire danger is still high across the park and the area is experiencing drought.

Campers may only have campfires in designated areas in both frontcountry and backcountry campsites. Keep campfires small to decrease the chance embers will spread. Always attend and fully extinguish campfires. An extinguished campfire is completely out when it is cool to the touch.

The park issued a campfire ban earlier this month to reduce the risk of human-caused wildfire during dry conditions and the increased risk for wildfires in the park.

No wildfires are currently burning within Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

It’s state law that every 20 years, counties in Tennessee have to have a plan for how their next 20 years will look.

It’s been longer than that in Knox County so the Knox County Growth Policy Coordinating Committee has been meeting and hearing from concerned people in the area about what this proposed plan would do to rural areas like Halls, Karns, and Hardin Valley which are options for expansion which would include road projects and the eventual development of housing.

County leaders project that 70,000 people will move to the county over the next 20 years.

The committee will meet again in December and plans won’t be finalized and put into action until early 2024.