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Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 29, 2016
A suit has been filed in the case of a 23-year-old man shot by a Bradley County Sheriff’s Deputy last July, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. The family of Allan F. Light III filed a lawsuit in Bradley County Court in Tuesday, stating that Deputy Tiffany Oakley needlessly killed Light and that the sheriff’s office covered up the incident. In Oakley’s statement given when the shooting occurred, Oakley said she was assaulted by a stranger outside of her home and used deadly force to defend herself. The lawsuit claims Light and Oakley were familiar, and that Light was unarmed and attempting to get away.