A Tennessee police officer shot dead a man who was holding his teenage son hostage inside their mobile home Wednesday.

A statement from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says officers from the Shelbyville Police Department responded to a report of a hostage situation and arrived to find 53-year-old Jeffrey Darren Hosea holding his son at gunpoint in a camper.

Police Chief Jan Phillips said the officer ordered Hosea to drop the weapon, and when he refused to comply, he opened fire.

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