Marcus Pickle said it was a typical Monday morning on his way to work when a man ran out in front of his garbage truck and hopped in the passenger seat.
Pickle told WVLT News the suspect, identified by Knoxville police as 43-year-old, Shawn White, was clearly out of it and originally asked to be taken to the police station.
“He just starts screaming, ‘Drive, drive, drive! They’re trying to kill me!’ So, I take off driving and I’m asking him, ‘Man are you alright? And who’s trying to hurt you?’ And he tells me, ‘Take a left right here, take a left!’ I said, ‘Man I’m merging on the highway. I cant make a left right here.’ And that’s when he pulled the knife out,” Pickle said.
Pickle said that in the moment, all he could think about was that he was going to put up a fight. https://tinyurl.com/ynf6ztep
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