Tennessee county to pay $1 million to veteran Tasered by deputy in 2022

A disabled US Air Force veteran who suffered a fractured skull after being Tasered by a Tennessee deputy will receive $1 million from Knox County. The settlement comes four years after the incident, in which the deputy was searching for a 34-year-old man but stopped Brian Eugene Hux, who was 64 at the time.Hux was on Edington Road in South Knox County on October 10, 2022, when Deputy Randall Williams approached him. Williams was looking for a hospital patient who had escaped police custody.

However, the information circulated among officers about the person they were seeking differed from Hux's appearance, according to the lawsuit.According to WVLT News, the alert described a man aged 34, standing six feet tall and having brown hair. Hux, meanwhile, was 64, measured 5 feet 9 inches and had long purple hair. He was also a 100% disabled Air Force veteran.The encounter ended with Hux being struck by a Taser in the back of his head.

He fell face-first onto the road. Medical records referred to in the lawsuit documented a fractured skull and bleeding in his brain.