KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - A member of the Aryan Nation who stabbed three people at a Knoxville bar on New Year’s Day in 2024 has been sentenced, according to Knox County District Attorney Charme Allen.

In the early morning hours of Jan. 1, 2024, Allen said the Knoxville Police Department responded to a stabbing at the Brickyard Bar and Grill in Bearden. There, officers learned Shawn Edward Hatcher, of Maryville, had been flirting with a woman who had asked him to stop touching her, and the victim told Hatcher to leave her alone.

As the victim was leaving with her group of friends, Allen said Hatcher punched and stabbed her. Two men in the group intervened and were also stabbed and cut.

Hatcher then ran down Homberg Drive while the victims went to the University of Tennessee Medical Cent

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