SPENCER – The fiancée of a man who was shot and killed by a Roane County sheriff’s deputy in 2019 has filed a lawsuit against the deputy and the county commission.
Tammy Lou Nichols filed her complaint February 19 in Roane Circuit Court against Deputy Michael King and the Roane County Commission. She was engaged to Timothy Rhodes, who was shot and killed by King on February 22, 2019. Ashley | courtswv.gov
Earlier this month, King, the Roane County Commission and Sheriff L. Todd Cole were named in another federal lawsuit over a similar shooting and fatality involving King.
In her complaint, Nichols says she and Timmy Rhodes, who was 28, went to his childhood home on Ambler Ridge Road to collect mail and other items. She says the long-established entrance to the home is through use of a roadway that passes in front of the home of Beth and Robert Young.