9-1-1 Call Released in Gas Attack

TIPTON CO., Tenn. - "My ex-boyfriend he's already left but I need to file a report against him, I don't want him to come back he's a cop, send someone out please."

Victim Lori Knoll made this dramatic 9-1-1 call from her house on Robertson Road after she tells dispatch her ex-boyfriend, Bartlett cop Phillip Devers came to her house and assaulted her.

"He forced his way into my house and he poured gasoline on me," says Knoll.

Knoll goes on to tell police she's filed charges on Devers in the past but dropped them, and was able to get him to leave before he could set her on fire which she says he threatened to do.

"Did you get the gasoline off you or is it still on?" asks the dispatcher. "No it's still on me, he poured it on me and the steps of my house and said he was going to burn it down," answers Knoll.

Knoll says she was able to get her phone before he could do that.

"I told him I was calling ya'll and he got mad and finally left, I started yelling help but I live in a rural area so I don't think anyone heard me."

Devers was released on bond on the aggravated assault charge, but Deputy Chief Donna Turner with the Tipton County Sheriff's Department says once they investigated the case further they added the charge aggravated burglary and a judge ruled Devers be held with no bond.

"For the severity of it and also that there is some type of past history there between the two and the violence obviously the judge's goal as well as ours is for any type of violence to not continue," says Chief Turner.