Look Who it Was Random video

UPDATE: Meigs County Shooting Victim was Center of Controversial Trial in 2003

2,448 views · Published 8 April 2013 · 2:33 · Indexed 21 October 2026

Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2013 · News & Politics

Watch on YouTube

By Jerry Askin A McMinn County man who confessed to raping and murdering his 14-month-old daughter is back in the spotlight again.Mitchell Delashmitt is now recovering in the hospital after he was shot at a home Tuesday night in Meigs County.Johnny Fairbanks watched as officers surrounded his neighbor's home.  That neighbor, Wendell Beaty, is also now the suspect and is accused of shooting Mitchell Delashmitt in the chest.We're told Delashmitt came to Beaty's home looking for another man, and Fairbanks thinks he knows why.He was going to borrow $10 from David, says Fairbanks.But, David, that property owner, wasn't there.Mr. Beaty allowed Mr. Delashmitt to hang out to wait on (David) to arrive, sometimes during that period of time an altercation broke out, where Delashmitt was shot, says Lt. Scotty Wiggins from the Meigs County Sheriff's Office.Beaty however tells deputies he doesn't even know Delashmitt, and doesn't believe (David) does either. But plenty of people, including Fairbanks, are familiar with Delashmitt's past.He's been in and out of trouble for  years. It's one thing or another, says Johnny Fairbanks.Delashmitt was indicted ten years ago for raping and killing his infant daughter, Angel.  That case ended up in a mistrial after an appeals court threw out his confession. The prosecutor remembers it well. We got to the point of being in a trial when the problems happened with the medical examiner, and that's when a plea agreement was worked out, and he had been under probation, says Assistant District Attorney Jim Stutts. That allowed Delashmitt to get out of jail on time served.  There is no known connection between that case and this shooting, but many say they aren't surprised to see him back in the news.I've been kind of looking for something like this to happen all along, so it didn't really surprise me at all, says Fairbanks.The case now is being handled by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Meigs County Sheriff's Office.  We're told the victim, Mitchell Delashmitt, is at the hospital in stable condition.

More from this channel