Deal Avoids Prosecution

(CHURCH HILL) – Attorney General, Dan Armstrong tells reporters he will not prosecute Church Hill mayor, Dennis Deal…based on allegations that Deal threatened to shoot city employees during a staff meeting last month.
Two of five city employees who participated in that May 25 meeting made statements to the Hawkins County Sheriff’s Office…claiming Deal became angry and threatened to shoot the employees present and then shoot himself. Deal says the allegations against him are false.