Joshua William Grubb shot dead by officer as he fled DUI stop with officer in back of this truck in Lenoir City Tenn. WVLT photo

Lenoir City Police Officer Tyrel Lorenz shot to death a fleeing DUI driver, according to a joint statement released Monday by Lenoir City Police Chief Don White and 9th Judicial District Attorney General Russell Johnson.”Lorenz commanded the driver to stop several times before Lorenz somehow ended up in the back bed of the pickup truck,” a news release states. “Once in the truck bed Lorenz was still yelling at the driver to stop.

Lenoir City Police Officer Tyrel Lorenz fatally shot fleeing DUI driver

“It was after Lorenz was in the bed of the pickup and the truck was speeding away that Lorenz apparently shot the driver of the truck.”

From WVLT

LENOIR CITY, Tenn. (03/14/2016) — Lenoir City police say the officer involved in a deadly shooting as Officer Tyrel Lorenz. Police say the victim, Joshua William Grubb, was shot multiple times after Grubb drove away with Lorenz in the bed of his truck.

Joshua William Grubb, 30, of Clinton fatally shot by Lenoir City Police Department officer during a DUI stop. (Anderson County Sheriff’s Office)

Lorenz is on paid administrative leave, pending the outcome of the investigation. He has been with the Lenoir City Police Department since July 2015 and has been a law enforcement officer since 2010.

The incident happened Sunday at 1:02 a.m. at the Bimbo’s convenience store on Highway 321 near the I-75 interchange. TBI agents investigated the scene until Sunday afternoon.

According to police, someone called 911 about three people who left the Ruby Tuesday’s parking lot in a pickup truck. Lorenz questioned the three people in the truck at Bimbo’s. He put one of those men,

Toni Ann Sutton, arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of Joshua William Grubb, 30, of Clinton by a Lenoir City Police Department officer during a DUI stop. (Anderson County Sheriff’s Office)

Brandon Lawrence Taylor, in handcuffs when Grubb began to drive away.

Randon Lawrence Taylor, arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of Joshua William Grubb, 30, of Clinton by a Lenoir City Police Department officer during a DUI stop. (Anderson County Sheriff’s Office)

Taylor is charged with public intoxication and evading arrest.

The other person at Bimbo’s is identified as Toni Ann Sutton. She is charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. ….MORE

Lenoir City Police patrol unit