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A disturbing footage circulating on the Internet shows a enraged man shooting and injuring his partner’s son from point blank range following a heated argument ending with the shooter taking his own life after a lengthy 2-hour standoff with police.
Reports are that Jeffrey Scott West, 68, of Friendsville, Tennessee, open fired hitting Kyle W. Spitze, 24, once in the ear, following an argument between the two on August. 25, 2023, according to Blount County Sheriff's Office.
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In the video footage, you can see West appears in his bedroom doorway brandishing a handgun.
“I’m getting ready to blow his goddamn brains out! Right f–kin’ now,” West is heard yelling as he appears from behind the door with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth and the gun pointed directly at Spitze as he lies on his bed.
Spitze’s mother, Melanie, is seen scurrying over to West with her pants down, pleading with him to “Stop it,” eventually getting him away from the bedroom door.
“Blow my brains out? Shoot me, and I guarantee you’ll go to jail for life,” Spitze replies.
“You want me to?” West yells, coming back in view of the camera and pointing his handgun at the victim, still lounging on his bed.
Spitze’s mother begins bickering with West as she shuts her son’s door to de-escalate the heated exchange.
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“I’m getting ready to blow his brains out, and yours!” West shouts from behind the door, prompting Spitze to stand up and open it.
“You gonna blow my mom’s brain out?” yells the victim, now standing in the hallway of the home, and tells West to “point that gun” at him “again.”
As the camera point toward West, the man again points the gun in Spitze’s direction.
Spitze rushes out the home’s backdoor in a panic to get help as the clip ends.
The Blount County Sheriff’s Office noted that soon after, a 911 call would be made reporting the shooting.
Officers arrived around 8:15 p.m. to find Spitze and his mother outside the home, as West had begun to barricade himself inside the residence.
Members of the Sheriff’s Crisis Negotiations and SWAT teams were called in to negotiate with the shooter.
Police say they used a public address system in an attempt to talk with West while surrounding the home in hopes he would surrender.
After nearly two and a half hours of failed attempts at communicating with West, deputies sent a sheriff’s K-9 into the home shortly before 11 p.m.
West would be found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to law enforcement.
Spitze was rushed to the University of Tennessee Medical Center for treatment of his non-life-threatening injury soon after police arrived.
It’s unknown what the relationship was between West and Spitze.
No law enforcement officers were injured during the August 2023 standoff, police said.
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