Khyree Thompson
Tabitha Garrison
Verronta PageHamilton County jurors will devote another day to deciding whether a 21-year-old man took a life during a 2015 robbery prosecutors say he planned with two friends.
Jurors debated Khyree Thompson’s fate for an hour and a half before breaking for the night Thursday. They will resume deliberations today at 9 a.m., Judge Don Poole said.
Prosecutors say Thompson, Verronta Page, 21, and Tabitha Garrison, 23, conspired at a party on Feb. 19, 2015, to rob 21-year-old Reginald Ballard of $4,000 he received in tax returns. Ballard left with Garrison and booked them a room at Cascades Motel, unaware she was communicating with Page and Thompson.
The two men hitched a ride to the East Ridge motel and snuck into the room, where Thompson fired two bullets into Ballard, prosecutors said.
During closing arguments, prosecutors pointed to evidence they said showed Thompson committed first-degree felony murder and attempted especially aggravated robbery.