A suspect is in custody after two Blount County Sheriff’s Office deputies were shot responding to a domestic call in Rockford Tuesday afternoon, according to Marian O’Briant with the sheriff’s office.

The shooting happened after two deputies, Edward Walker and Corbin Smith, responded to a home on Jacob Springs Road around 4 p.m. O’Briant said the deputies were familiar with the home because they had responded to it before for domestic situations. O’Briant did not give many details in the call but did say that an elderly woman was inside the home, adding that she is now safe.

Blount County Sheriff James Lee Berrong said the suspect, 59-year-old Ronald Reed Millsaps, fired an estimated 150-300 rounds at the deputies with a high-powered rifle
A neighbor in the area, Brian Moneymaker, said he had lived there for six years and had never seen a police presence that large.

• Knox County Sheriff’s Office
• Maryville Police Department
• Alcoa Police Department
• Blount County Fire Department
• Knoxville Police Department
• TWRA
• Loudon County Sheriff’s Office
• Tennessee Highway Patrol
• Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
• US Marshals Service
• ATF
• American Medical Response
• Sevier County Sheriff’s Office
• Lenoir City Police Department
• US Homeland Security
• Tennessee Homeland Security

Millsaps will face “a host” of charges.