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Man arrested in Chattanooga SWAT standoff charged with murder of children’s mother

Chattanooga Police officers and negotiators get ready to leave the scene following a SWAT standoff Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at the Rustic Village apartment complex off Lee Highway in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Keon Stewart, the suspect involved in the standoff, was talked down and taken into custody without further incident.
Chattanooga Police officers and negotiators get ready to leave the scene following a SWAT standoff Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at the Rustic Village apartment complex off Lee Highway in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Keon Stewart, the suspect involved in the standoff, was talked down and taken into custody without further incident. Chattanooga Police officers and negotiators get ready to leave the scene following a SWAT standoff Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at the Rustic Village apartment complex off Lee Highway in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Keon Stewart, the suspect involved in the standoff, was talked down and taken into custody without further incident.

By Staff Report 1 min read

photo Keon Stewart

The West Tennessee man who was arrested in Chattanooga last week after a SWAT standoff has been charged with second-degree murder in the slaying of his children’s mother in Jackson.

Authorities say Keon Stewart, 23, of Brownsville was arraigned today in the death of Amanda Northern, 24, who was killed in her Jackson apartment on Oct. 16. Her 2- and 3-year-old children were missing.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued a missing child alert and Chattanooga police found Stewart hiding with the children in an apartment complex on Lee Highway the day after the slaying.

Deputy Chief Tyreece Miller of the Jackson Police Department said investigators believe Stewart strangled Northern during an altercation.

Stewart is being held in the Madison County Jail on $10 million bond, Miller said.