East Ridge Police have charged three people with murder in the February death of 21-year-old Reginald Ballard.
Ballard was found shot to death in the Cascades Motel at 3625 Ringgold Road on Feb. 20. Now two men and a woman from Dayton, Tenn., and Pikeville, Tenn., have been charged with murder.
Kyhree Thompson, 20, Tabitha Garrison, 22, and Verronta Page, 19, are each charged with murder, possession of a firearm during a felony and tampering with evidence.
Police declined to release any details about what led the trio to shoot Ballard twice or what evidence implicated the three people in the crime.
Thompson and Garrison live at the same address in Dayton. Page lives in Pikeville.
All three have been arrested and are awaiting transfer to the Hamilton County Jail.
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