JaMichael HarrisPolice believe a photo that a 21-year-old woman posted on Facebook of herself posing with money might have led a man to kill her over the weekend on Chattanooga’s Westside.
JaMichael Donte Harris, 20, was arrested Tuesday morning after police say he tried to make Inez Burney’s death look like a drowning early Saturday morning in the College Hill Courts neighborhood.
Harris is charged with criminal homicide in Burney’s death. He will be in court for a preliminary hearing Tuesday. Records indicate Harris does not have a local criminal history. The incident marks the city’s second nonshooting homicide of 2014 and the 13th total homicide.
Harris remains in the Hamilton County Jail on $500,000 bond.
Officers initially responded to a report of CPR in progress at 1400 Cypress Street Court about 6 a.m Saturday.