Thursday and Friday of this week saw two separate homicide cases just miles from each other.  Thursday night a 14-year-old Sparta boy called 911 to say he had killed his 47-year-old father. The shooting occurred at a residence on Crossville Highway in Sparta. When deputies responding to a 911 call arrived at the home, they found a 47-year-old deceased male with a gunshot wound. During the course of the investigation, it was determined that a male juvenile who lived in the home was the individual responsible for the death. The 14-year-old male was charged with voluntary manslaughter via a juvenile petition. He is currently being held in juvenile detention. 

Friday afternoon around 2;30, Crossville Police reports say 74-year-old Warren Nostrom showed up at the Cumberland County School Bus Garage and shot his wife dead along with another man.  58-year-old Joy Nostrom was found dead along with a deceased male, 54-year-old Mark Gunter, lying between two busses.  The husband also shot himself in an apparent suicide attempt police say.  He was flown to Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga, treated for his injuries and released to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department where he was charged with the double murders and placed on four-million-dollars bond. Some news reports are saying the wife was a Cumberland County School Bus driver.  There is some speculation that Gunter was also a bus driver also but that hasn’t been confirmed.  TBI is treating the double homicide as a ‘domestic’ incident. TBI, along with Crossville Police, held a news conference later in the day at the Police Headquarters where all local news agencies and all three major Knoxville television stations were in attendance with questions.  Some busses were delayed in picking up students after school because of the shooting however, a post on the Cumberland County School Facebook page says all students were taken home by 5:30pm.    Even though authorities say school students were never in any danger – some parents are wondering why they were not notified of the shooting by the school system and that their child would not be getting home at normal time.