A Tennessee police officer was found fatally shot inside her burning home Sunday.
Officers performed a welfare check on Deputy Savannah Puckett,22 when she did not show up for work around 5pm.
They went to Puckett’s residence on highway 41N in Springfield, Tennessee and found her home engulfed in flames.
Firefighters arrived on the scene entered the home and located Puckett’s body with a gunshot wound.
She was pronounced dead on the scene.
Puckett was with the Sheriff Department for 4 years.
TBI has been asked to investigate. The investigation remains ongoing.
The Sheriff’s Department released a statement saying, “Words cannot express the sadness and grief that Savanna’s family and her Sheriff’s Office family are facing right now. This is a tragedy that we are processing minute by minute. Please keep Savanna, her family, and the Sheriff’s Office in your thoughts and prayers.”
Wow sad R.I.P. Queen my condolences to the family and friends.