Photo contributed by Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office / Iesha Ariona JonesThe murder trial of Iesha Ariona Jones continued Wednesday in Hamilton County Criminal Court, with jurors hearing the defendant confess on video to previously having sex with the victim and acknowledging that her husband had found out about it.
Jones, 29, is facing charges of first-degree premeditated murder and first-degree aggravated murder in connection with the shooting death of Norman Sullivan, 52, of Chattanooga, on Sept. 3, 2018.
The jury heard testimony from a woman who was in the bedroom of the apartment when Sullivan and Domanic Deonata Gillespie, 30, are said to have begun fighting in the 2100 block of Vance Avenue in Chattanooga that day.
As the prosecution called its first witness for the day, Judge Don W. Poole instructed the media to not use the name of the witness or describe her, due to the witness’s fear for her life.
The witness, who testified to being in a casual romantic relationship with the victim, recounted what she heard as she was “doing her hair” after Sullivan and Gillespie entered the bedroom.