PUTNAM COUNTY MAN TAKEN TO TRAUMA CENTER AFTER BEING SHOT THREE TIMES
An Algood man is in stable condition at Vanderbilt Medical Center after being shot in Cookeville yesterday. Police say 31-year-old Justin Michael Payne was wounded three times in the upper torso at the LaQuinta Inn. A second subject was also reportedly injured. Officers arrested 36-year-old Christian James Schlenker of Albuquerque, New Mexico for two counts of aggravated assault. He was taken to the Putnam County jail and initially placed under a $450,000 bond.