The 2020 Knox County stabbing occurred on April 7, 2020, shortly before 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, when Idris Abdus-Salaam stabbed to death three women and injured another at a Pilot truck stop a few miles east of Knoxville, Tennessee, located at 7210 Strawberry Plains Pike. Abdus-Salaam was then shot and killed by a responding police officer on the scene. Attack A man armed with a knife inside a Pilot truck rest stop followed store manager Joyce Whaley, 57, into the woman's bathroom, launching the start of a stabbing rampage. He stabbed Whaley 11 times, killing her, and then left the washroom to attack other patrons at the station. He stabbed to death Patricia Denise Nibbe, who was nearby the washroom door - and then began to stab Nettie R. Spencer, 41. Others at the scene began to react to the attack, and attempted to intervene against the assailant, with one person reportedly spraying the attacker with a fire extinguisher as Spencer managed to leave through the front door of the station. The assailant chased Spencer outside and began attacking her again, killing her. He then launched himself at the nearby car of customer Dessa Hutchison, who had left the station earlier in response to the attack, and fled to the driver's seat of her vehicle to call 911. The attacker pulled Hutchison from her car, repeatedly stabbing her while she was still on the line with police operators. The attacker then left her car, and began wandering around the station's parking lot. During this time, a Pilot employee bystander got behind the wheel of a nearby SUV he found open, and ran the car into the assailant twice - sending him over the hood of the car on the second attempt. After both collisions, the attacker got back up, and began to wander around the parking lot again. The first police officer to arrive on the scene was Officer Jordan Hurst, who confronted the assailant on the street outside the stop while the assailant was still armed with the knife. Hurst shouted at the suspect from his vehicle to stop and drop the knife eight times before firing five close range rounds at the attacker as he refused to drop his knife and started moving towards the car. Hurst was placed on paid administrative leave during investigation of the incident, per department policy, and later returned to duty. Assailant