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- By TESSA WORLEY tworley@timesnews.net
- https://www.timesnews.net/news/crime/hsaap-commander-receives-misdemeanor-charges-after-killing-11-point-buck-on-army-land/article_693fc42c-0220-11ed-b85e-e3525566e570.html
- Jul 12, 2022

KINGSPORT — Holston Army Ammunitions Plant commander Lt. Col. Randolph Scott Carpenter and two of his employees have been charged by the state with misdemeanors related to a hunting trip conducted on HSAAP land in December.
According to an affidavit from the Hawkins County General Sessions Court, on Dec. 19, 2021, Carpenter was in the passenger seat of a government pickup when he was captured on camera shooting an 11-point whitetail buck with a crossbow on HSAAP property.
“Mr. James Brady Duff handed a crossbow out the window to another occupant in the front passenger seat,” the affidavit states. “The individual identified as Randolph Scott Carpenter took the crossbow and then shot the 11-point whitetail buck from within the pickup. The driver, Guy Hurd, then operated the pickup…
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