{"id":626692,"date":"2026-05-06T10:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/626692\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:54:55","slug":"manhunt-for-retired-special-forces-soldier-accused-of-shooting-wife-enters-5th-day-in-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/626692\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhunt for retired special forces soldier accused of shooting wife enters 5th day in Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An intense manhunt for a retired special forces soldier accused of shooting his wife entered its fifth day Tuesday, as authorities continue to scour a section of northern Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Craig Berry, who is facing an attempted murder charge, fled into the woods. He is described by the Stewart County Sheriff&#8217;s Office as having &#8220;extensive training in survival tactics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is an excellent swimmer and diver, and is in good physical shape,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said, and noted he is familiar with the area in which he disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/berry-2.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"berry-2.jpg \" height=\"568\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  An image captured by a trail cam that is believed to show Craig Berry on May 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                Stewart County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office said Berry is armed and believed to be carrying extra ammunition. He was wearing camouflage clothing when he was spotted on a nearby trail camera several days ago, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office said it doesn&#8217;t believe Berry has a phone, but investigators also haven&#8217;t ruled out the possibility that he has received outside help after the alleged shooting.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/berry.png#.png\" alt=\"berry.png \" height=\"450\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  An undated photo of Craig Berry, who is wanted on attempted murder charges in the shooting of his wife.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Stewart County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office said it is working with the U.S. Marshals Service, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Tennessee Highway Patrol, and plans to conduct a &#8220;very detailed search&#8221; of an area on the eastern side of Kentucky Lake this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stewart County Sheriff Frankie Gray said finding Berry could be a &#8220;lengthy process.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Berry has been on the run since the early morning hours of May 1, when deputies responded to a report that Berry&#8217;s wife had been shot during a domestic dispute. She was hospitalized at the time, and her condition Tuesday was unclear. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stewart County is located along the border with Kentucky, some 75 miles northeast of Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n                Go deeper with The Free Press\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An intense manhunt for a retired special forces soldier accused of shooting his wife entered its fifth day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,569,3,2079,2219,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-626692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-kentucky","tag-news","tag-shooting","tag-tennessee","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}