The Murfreesboro Police Department Fatal Accident Crash Team (FACT) is investigating a single car wreck that left one person dead and four others injured on Sunday, Sept. 4. The fatal crash occurred on E. Clark Blvd. at N. Tennessee Blvd. at 1 a.m. The intersection was closed for hours while the FACT investigated the crash….
Divers recovered the body of a Rockvale man who fell out of a boat Sunday near Stewart Creek Boat Ramp, a Rutherford County Sheriff’s sergeant said. His name is not yet being released until family members are notified. The man and his wife were boating when he fell, said Sgt. Nick Coble. She attempted to…
A Rutherford County Grand Jury has indicted two men and a woman for murder and other fentanyl related charges surrounding the April 2021 death of a Murfreesboro man. Walter “Tommy” Bowen, 42, of Smyrna, Travis Stanley, 29, of Murfreesboro, and Madison Davis, 25, also of Murfreesboro, were served the indictments on Nov. 24. All three…
One inmate at the Rutherford County Detention Center died Sunday at a Nashville hospital after being involved in a fight with another inmate Saturday, said Sheriff Mike Fitzhugh. “Deputies responded to the fight immediately with medical staff nurses who began treatment,” Fitzhugh said. “Emergency Medical Services paramedics transported the inmate to Skyline Medical Center where…
One person died in a tractor-trailer crash and fire on Interstate 24 about 5:45 p.m. at the 72-mile marker toward Nashville between Interstate 840 and Almaville Road. The truck hauled cattle. Deputies are corralling cattle into a field and helping with traffic. EMS paramedics are treating a patient while Murfreesboro Fire and Rescue extinguishes the…
A Murfreesboro man riding a bicycle dies after colliding with a vehicle on S. Church Street Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 7. The impact caused the victim, 71-year old Herbert Knee, to be tossed from the bike and land several feet away. Knee was treated on the scene by personnel with the Murfreesboro Fire Rescue Department and…
The man who died in a single-vehicle crash on N. Rutherford Blvd. Wednesday, Sept. 2, has been identified as Ricky Allen Thomas, 59, of Murfreesboro. Thomas was traveling south on N. Rutherford Blvd. when his vehicle, a 2002 Ford Ranger pickup, left the roadway and struck a tree. He was pronounced dead on the scene….
Family members need more information after learning their relative’s skeletal remains were found July 27 in a field off Mt. Herman Road, Rutherford County Sheriff’s detectives said. DNA testing identified the remains as Shontisha Marie Rutland of Nashville, who was supposed to be celebrating her 23rd birthday this month, said Capt. Britt Reed of the…
A Murfreesboro man died in single-vehicle crash Wednesday, Sept. 2. Murfreesboro Police Department officers responded to the crash on N. Rutherford Blvd., near MTSU Blvd., around 9:51 p.m. Fatal Accident Crash Team (F.A.C.T.) investigators said a 59-year-old man was traveling south on N. Rutherford Blvd. in a pickup when he left the roadway and struck…
Another suspect was charged with killing a man July 26 at his home, a Rutherford County Sheriff’s detective said Tuesday. Suspect Christopher Lee White, 30, of Hopkinsville, Ky., was arrested for first-degree murder of Erick Bixler, 45, of Asbury Lane, said Detective Ty Downing. Deputies were called to Bixler’s home where they found he was…