Deputies with the Knox County Sheriff’s Office were called to a home on KY 3439, following reports of a man with a rifle allegedly threatening to shoot another man and a woman.

 

When officers arrived on the scene, the potential victims mentioned in the call told them the suspect, 26-year-old Rodney Hampton, of Girdler, had forced the both of them out of the home at gunpoint before barricading himself inside.

 

Deputies spent almost a half-hour attempting to convince Hampton to exit the home, which he eventually did while surrendering to police.

 

Hampton is charged with multiple counts of wanton endangerment, two-counts of terroristic threatening, and one-count of menacing.

 

He was lodged in the Knox County Detention Center.