A 20-year-old male suspect has been arrested by police for multiple shootings at Pastor Greg Locke's home last September. The incident prompted Locke and his family to relocate in September.
The Wilson County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee announced the arrest of Tyler Poole, who is from Hermitage, on December 5. Detectives from the Sheriff's Office, assisted by the Metro Nashville Police Department, executed a search warrant at 8234B Terry Lane in Hermitage related to the shooting that occurred on September 3 at Greg Lock's residence in Mt. Juliet.
He faces charges including aggravated assault, four counts of reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, and two counts of vandalism. All of these charges are connected to the shooting at Locke's former residence, which fortunately did not result in any injuries.
Poole is currently held at the Wilson County Jail with a bond set at $50,000.
Wilson County Sheriff's Office Captain Scott Moore informed The Tennessean that deputies found 30 to 40 shell casings scattered around Locke's home, the garage, and a vehicle when they responded to the scene on the night of the shooting.
In the aftermath, Pastor Locke was advised by investigators not to return home. “We have not been allowed to be back at our house since then, and other than packing stuff up, we're not going back anyhow,” Locke told his congregation in September.
Pastor Locke, who leads the Global Vision Bible Church, which has recently moved from Mt. Juliet to Lebanon, has previously expressed his belief that divine intervention slowed his family down on the night of the shooting as they were driving home from Pigeon Forge.
He described the aftermath of the shooting, stating, “All of a sudden I began to realize it (bullets) went through the wall and the headboard and Destiny's room, and you know, riddle the truck up and the garage, and we're talking about from the bottom of the driveway all the way up through the back of the truck, the middle of the truck, out the front of the truck, through the garage door, all the way out the back of the garage, into the fence, at the very back of the property.”
