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Attempted murder suspect in west Tennessee found dead after manhunt

After a five-day manhunt, a special forces veteran in west Tennessee accused of attempting to murder his wife was found dead on Wednesday. Initial reports were that he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The body of 53-year-old Craig Mark Berry was found by a Stewart County SWAT team several miles from his Dover home, near the area where trail cameras captured him entering the woods in Stewart County. 

Berry was wanted on suspicion of attempted murder after he attacked his wife April 30. According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Berry’s wife said her husband beat her and tried to strangle her shortly before midnight. She managed to get into her car, but Berry shot her as she fled. His wife suffered a neck wound, but has since been released from the hospital.

Stewart County deputies had scoured rough, heavily forested terrain near the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. They were joined by U.S. Marshals, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security.

The sheriff's office said Berry likely died not long after he fled early on May 1, based on his body’s decomposition. Heat detection planes had not picked up anything during a search of the immediate area the next day.

Police said Berry was found with a single weapon along with a supply of ammunition.

Berry’s body will be sent to the medical examiner for an official determination of death.


(Photos: Stewart County Sheriffs office)
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