Contributed photo by McMinn County Sheriff’s Office / Jazzmine J. Hall, 26, of Athens, Tenn., is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder.Criminal cases against two people charged in a Sept. 25 quadruple murder in McMinn County, Tennessee, have been bound over to the grand jury.
Jazzmine Jacole Hall, 26, of Athens, Tennessee, and Curtis Donnell Smith, 38, of Etowah, Tennessee, appeared in McMinn County General Sessions Court on Thursday on four counts of first-degree murder and felony murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder.
The pair put lawyers on record and waived their rights to a preliminary hearing, court officials said Friday.
Hall and Smith are charged in slayings authorities said were related to a dispute over a 10-month-old baby that left Trevon Hall, 36, in addition to Skylar Hawn, 24, Jesse Dupree, 40, and Brandi Harris, 39, dead in a home on County Road 60 in McMinn County’s Riceville community. The baby is the child of the now-dead Trevon Hall and Jazzmine Hall, authorities said.
McMinn County Sheriff Joe Guy said during the investigation the slayings were among the worst homicides in county history and the tragedy had affected multiple local families. The four killings were among six homicides in the county in a week’s time, making it the deadliest week ever in McMinn County.