TBI agents are investigating the circumstances leading to an officer-involved shooting that occurred Thursday morning in Chattanooga.

Preliminary information indicates deputies with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office attempted to stop a vehicle that had been reported stolen. The driver failed to stop, and a pursuit ensued; the driver fired upon deputies but did not strike anything. After initially losing track of the vehicle, around 9 a.m., deputies located it again, and along with Chattanooga police officers, engaged in a subsequent pursuit of the vehicle. That pursuit ended near the 100 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard. Reports from the scene indicate the driver got out of the vehicle, brandished a firearm, and exchanged shots with law enforcement officers. One deputy sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was treated at a local hospital. The subject, who had not yet been positively identified, was pronounced deceased at the scene.

This investigation is still ongoing.