MONTEAGLE, Tenn. -- A man suspected of killing a sheriff's deputy and wounding another officer has died after authorities said he shot himself at the end of a daylong manhunt, a hospital supervisor said.

Kermit Bryson, 29, died Friday around 12:30 a.m. at Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, said David Trillet, a supervisor at the hospital.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation director Mark Gwyn said agents found Bryson behind his girlfriend's house Thursday evening and negotiated with him for about 20 minutes before he shot himself in the head.

TBI spokeswoman Kristin Helm said a tip led law officers to Bryson.

One-hundred police officers and 25 agencies launched a manhunt for Bryson after the Thursday morning shooting death of Deputy Shane Tate, 28.

Authorities found Bryson about three miles from where the deputy was shot.

Gwyn said officers did not fire any shots during the negotiations in Monteagle, a town of 1,200 people along Interstate 24 about 35 miles northwest of Chattanooga.

"We gave it the best effort we could," Gwyn said.

Tate died at a mobile home where he was trying to take Bryson into custody on a probation violation warrant.

Officers had been looking for Bryson for six to eight months when they found him around 3 a.m. Thursday at a mobile home in Monteagle.

Shots were fired and Tate died at the scene, Gwyn said.

Tate was the father of five young children and a three-year employee of the Grundy County Sheriff's Office. He had been on patrol for less than a year and graduated from Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy in Nashville just two weeks ago.

"He was a good police officer. He was young, energetic, worked hard and wanted to catch the bad guys," said Grundy County Mayor Ladue Bouldin. "With God's blessing, they will catch this criminal."

Monteagle Police Officer Brian Malhoit was grazed by a bullet but not seriously hurt. A reserve deputy also at the scene wasn't injured.

Gwyn said there were other people in the home at the time of the shooting, although he declined to identify them.

Massive Manhunt Conducted On Thursday

Within hours of the shooting, armed officers were using dogs and helicopters to comb the rugged area at the southern end of the Cumberland Plateau in what TBI spokeswoman Kristin Helm described as "an absolute all-out manhunt."

A neighbor and longtime friend of Bryson's said shooting someone would be out of character for him.

"He's not a bad guy. He had to freak out in some way," said Tim D. Sanders, 30, before authorities found Bryson.

Sanders said he and Bryson spent weekends in jail together last summer and that the slain deputy was the jailer. He said Tate and Bryson were friendly.

Bryson's criminal record includes convictions for theft, burglary and a jail escape in 2001.

Probation officials said the warrant was issued for Bryson because he failed drug screens and violated curfew while on probation for a 2007 felony marijuana possession charge.

Helm said the three officers approached Bryson's mobile home carefully and made their way inside. Officers often serve warrants early in the morning, expecting that suspects will be asleep.

"The officer was actually shot inside the residence," she said.

Bryson's former mother-in-law, Marcia Crowe, said Bryson was married to her daughter for about a year before they divorced several years ago, and they have a 10-year-old daughter.

"I saw it on TV and I just couldn't believe it," Crowe, a 57-year-old from Dayton, said in a phone interview Thursday. "I expected him to steal, do dope and stuff like that, but I never thought he would kill someone."

Brian Grisham, director of the training academy, called Tate a good officer and person.

"He seemed enthusiastic about what he was about to do," Grisham said.

Crowe said her daughter and Bryson have a 10-year-old daughter.

"He was kind and sweet to his child," she said.

Bryson was enrolled in a community corrections program, which the probation officials described as more intensive than state probation and required him to meet with his probation officer twice a month.

Brian Grisham, director of the training academy, called Tate a good officer and person.

"He seemed enthusiastic about what he was about to do," Grisham said.

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