Laura Morgan has been arrested and charged with the 1st Degree Murder of James Masingil and Especially Aggravated Robbery.A 48-year-old legless woman claims she fended off a crowbar attack before turning the weapon on her 73-year-old friend and killing him.
But Chattanooga police investigator Lucas Fuller told a judge Tuesday that the body of James Masingill was found seated in his chair facing a television with 17 strike wounds.
Some of the injuries were on his arms, which he likely used to defend himself, the officer said. Twelve of the wounds were head lacerations and skull fractures.
And he saw no injuries to Laura Lee Morgan.
Sessions Judge Christie Mahn Sell sent Morgan’s murder charge to the grand jury.