SUBJECT: Officers Arrest Man For Attempted 2nd Degree Murder
DATE: June 13th, 2024
CASE #: 24-008966
GENERAL NARRATIVE
On June 12th, 2024, at approximately 6:13 pm, Kingsport Police Officers responded to a stabbing at 805 Lynn Garden Drive (Travel Inn). Arriving officers located Brandon Fields with severe lacerations consistent with a knife injury. Fields was alert and informed officers that he had been in a verbal altercation with Paul McDowell over a female. Fields said that during the argument, McDowell stabbed him in the back with a knife. Fields was transported to a local hospital by Sullivan County EMS and was treated for his injuries.
A short time later, Officers located McDowell on Dahila Street and arrested him for attempted 2nd degree murder and evading arrest. McDowell was taken to the Kingsport City Jail where he was booked and processed.
This was an isolated incident and there was no threat to the public at large.
SUSPECT INFORMATION
Name: Paul McDowell
Age: 25
Gender/Race Male/White
Residency: Kingsport, TN
Charges: Attempted 2nd Degree Murder, Evading Arrest
VICTIM INFORMATION
Name: Brandon Fields
Age: 37
Gender/Race: Male/White
Residency: Kingsport, TN
Injuries: Severe lacerations
RELEASING OFFICER
Corporal Brandon Johnson
Kingsport Police Department Professional Standards Unit
Office (423) 229-9339, Fax (423) 343-9749
BrandonJohnson@KingsportTN.gov
