GREENE CO. – A Springville man was killed Saturday in what police are saying was an “unintentional shooting”.
The incident was reported at 1:30 p.m. According to Greene County Sheriff’s Department, a 16-year-old was unloading a semi-automatic weapon to clean it when it “unintentionally” discharged one round striking 21-year-old Bryar Laws.
Laws was transported to IU Health Bloomington Hospital where he died from his injury.
Greene County Sheriff’s Department was assisted by Center-Jackson Fire Territory and Greene County Ambulance Service.
The incident remains under investigation.
Laws will be laid to rest in New Tazwell, Tennessee. His calling hours are Thursday, December 22 from 4 p.m. until 5 p.m. at Cresthaven Funeral Home in Bedford.
