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TBI: No injuries after officer shoots at shoplifting suspect who drove toward officer in Collierville

No one in the car was hurt nor were any officers hurt during the incident.

COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has been called to investigate after a shooting involving a police officer Tuesday near Academy Sports + Outdoors on North Byhalia Road in Collierville.

According to the TBI, at about 5:30 p.m. while on duty outside businesses near West Poplar Avenue and North Byhalia Road, Collierville police officers were called to a reported shoplifting at a business. 

The TBI said the suspect got into a car, which officers tried to stop in the parking lot. According to information from the scene, as officers used two of their cars to block the suspect, the driver tried to get away and drove towards an officer outside of his police car. The officer then shot at the suspect's car multiple times. 

The suspect's car was recovered and both people inside were taken into custody a short time later in the 300 block of Market Boulevard. 

No one in the car was hurt nor were any officers hurt during the incident. 

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