New Market Man Shot By FBI Suspected Part of International Child Pornography Ring

Months long investigation beginning in Australia traced to New Market, TN

A local man died on Wednesday morning as a result of shooting incident involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation. According to information provided by the FBI, agents were attempting to execute a search and arrest warrant when the incident occurred. Federal agents were attempting to arrest the subject for the distribution and possession of child pornography on the morning of March 6, 2013 when a Special Agent of the Knoxville Division of the FBI shot and killed the subject. The shooting incident is under investigation by the FBI’s Inspection Division, per FBI policy. Assess to the Stapleton Road home in New Market was limited to the FBI on Wednesday and Thursday and the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department was on the scene to maintain the privacy of the subject’s family. At the time of publishing, the FBI had not released the name of the subject, however the media was directed, in a published statement, to Public Records documentation. On March 4, 2013, a Complaint was filed against Scott Edwards Evans of Stapleton Road in New Market for receipt and distribution of child pornography. The Complaint alleges that Evans was a part of a group associated internationally with child pornography and that a Yahoo!  search warrant revealed approximately 12,000 emails found in an account between February 2012 and January 2013. According to the Complaint, the vast majority of the emails were between dozens of individuals that met largely through Craigslist and were sexually explicit in nature-including video and images of adult heterosexual and homosexual activity, transsexual activity, bestiality and child pornography and prepubescent child erotica. Authorities compared images of Evans found in the email account, which also contained explicit child pornography, with a driver’s license photo of Evans for visual confirmation of identity.