and last updated 2021-05-14 15:15:29-04
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â The Knox County District Attorneyâs Office has announced charges against a 21-year-old man who they say sold a gun to Anthony Thompson Jr., who was shot and killed by police at an area high school in April.
The DA said Kelvon Foster is charged with providing handguns to juveniles. Heâs also facing federal charges of making false or fictitious statements in connection with the purchase of a firearm.
According to the DAâs office, Foster met the 17-year-old at Harveyâs Pistol & Pawn on April 5 and bought a 9mm handgun. Heâs accused of meeting Thompson Jr. later that day and then selling him the gun for cash and marijuana.
Federal and state authorities charged a 21-year-old Knoxville man with supplying slain Austin-East High School student Anthony Thompson Jr. with a gun.
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If court records are true, we now know how slain Austin-East Magnet High School student Anthony Thompson Jr. got a gun.
Kelvon Foster was arrested Friday on a federal charge of lying to buy the Glock Model 45 handgun the 17-year-old had in a hoodie jacket pocket shortly before he was fatally shot by police inside a bathroom at the school April 12.