Employees of the Bradley County Medical Examiner’s Office remove a body from 325 Baker Bridge Road in Cleveland on Friday afternoon. A triple homicide was reported to have taken place at the home just before 7 a.m.
Ryan and Darren Boling (left to right) look toward their father’s home at 325 Baker Bridge Road in Cleveland, Tenn., on Friday. A triple homicide was reported at the residence around 7 a.m. The brothers along with another family member returned to the scene in the midafternoon to retrieve Charles Boling Jr.’s dog.CLEVELAND, Tenn. – Ann Matthews awoke Friday to the whup-whup-whup of a helicopter flying near her home and the ringing of her phone. Her son was on the other line, asking what was going on around the corner.
Out on her front porch, Matthews heard a woman’s wail pierce the air from a few houses away. The woman had been told that her father, mother and brother were dead.
Police said Charles Boling Jr., 47, a lifelong resident of the area, and his parents, Charles and Gail, were found dead in Boling Jr.’s home at 325 Baker Bridge Road.
Boling Jr.’s friend Kenneth Kilgore was in the house with several gunshot wounds, still alive. He was airlifted to Erlanger hospital, where he was in critical condition in an intensive care unit Friday night, Bradley County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Bob Gault said.
On Facebook, Boling Jr. and Kilgore are listed as being in a “domestic partnership,” and county property records show they are joint owners of the house in a rural northeastern corner of Bradley County.