A man charged in a 2019 murder in Hixson is representing himself in a trial this week — but he won’t take the stand to testify, he told a judge Thursday.
Kameron Leslie is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Taja Whiteside, a 30-year-old woman found dead in her Hixson home in January 2019.
Whiteside’s eldest son found her body Jan. 11, after using a gift card to open the locked door to her bedroom, he testified Wednesday. Her death likely occurred sometime overnight between Jan. 10 and 11, prosecutor Michael Dowd said in his opening arguments.
Whiteside’s daughter said she’d heard Leslie tell Whiteside he was going to kill her, according to testimony Thursday from Children’s Advocacy Center forensic interviewer Candy Overby.