A man was shot Friday morning near the Chickamauga Dam day use area after he and a Chattanooga police officer fired their weapons, state investigators said.
Chattanooga police responded to the 2900 block of Kings Point Road around 10 a.m. after receiving a report of a man threatening to harm himself, according to press releases from the Chattanooga Police Department and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
Officers made contact with the man before he and an officer fired their weapons for reasons still under investigation, the TBI said.
The man was shot and taken to a local hospital for treatment, the agency said. No officers were injured.
TBI agents work solely as fact-finders in its cases and are conducting an independent investigation into the shooting, including collecting evidence and interviewing witnesses, the press release said.