Robbery and murder spree of suspect Kirby Gene Wallace ended Friday as he was taken into custody is now in custody
Double murder suspect Kirby Wallace was taken into custody Friday following a days-long manhunt in the Tennessee woods after being spotted hiding beside a chicken pen.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the former fugitive’s capture in a tweet after announcing earlier in the morning that the search for Wallace had extended into Stewart County following a “credible sighting” there.
Wallace, 53, is accused of killing 63-year-old Brenda Smith on Sept. 23 after she and her husband left church and found him in their home. Wallace allegedly tied them up and set their house on fire, killing Smith and injuring her husband Teddy.
Kirby also allegedly shot and killed a man on Oct. 1.
Montgomery and Stewart County homicide suspect Kirby G. Wallace in cuffs in a Stewart County Sheriff’s patrol car
A SWAT team searched the property of Mitchell Allen, a resident of Stewart County community Indian Mound, after a neighbor told Allen he spotted a man near his home, the Leaf-Chronicle reports.
“He was hunkered down beside of a chicken pen behind a truck,” Allen told The Leaf-Chronicle.
Officials had been searching for 53-year-old murder suspect Kirby Gene Wallace, a TBI Top 10 most wanted fugitive, on charges of first-degree murder, felony murder, aggravated arson, especially aggravated kidnapping, especially aggravated robbery, especially aggravated burglary and theft of property.
Sheriff’s deputies arrest the fugitive, Friday morning beside a chicken coop in Stewart County, Ten
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