Devante Lavon RaglandMurder charge dismissed
At the request of prosecutors, a Sessions Court judge on Tuesday dismissed a murder charge against one of three men arrested in a Jan. 12 homicide on Swan Road.
Judge Gary Starnes dismissed charges of first-degree murder, especially aggravated robbery and criminal conspiracy against Devante Lebron Ragland, 19, after prosecutor David Schmidt told the judge that without two witnesses he couldn’t show probable cause.
Prosecutors can file charges against Ragland at a later date if more evidence or testimony becomes available.
Co-defendants Christopher Jennings, 19, and Kristopher Lebron Bell, 20, had a preliminary hearing Friday. Judge David Bales bound charges against the two men to the grand jury.
The three men were arrested in the shooting death of Timothy Bumpass. Bell and Jennings are being held on a $500,000 bond each in the Hamilton County Jail.