C. Walter Brown
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Narrative of Events Regarding Shotgun Jane Doe
Synopsis taken from newspaper articles in the Knoxville News Sentinel archives.
Anything with ** before it is my thought and not part of the synopsis.
Percy Preston 76, of Bristol Virginia picked up two men and a woman hitchhiking. He claims he does not remember where he picked them up.
**This is in sharp contrast to the previous theory that she was picked up by two men at a rest stop.
Percy had left his home Saturday night in a white 1977 Impalla and had picked the three up some time Sunday morning.
**Bristol Virginia stradles the Tennessee-Virginia line and is half in Tennessee and half in Virginia. It is just north of the rest stop everyone mentions previous. This leads me to believe he may have picked them up at this rest stop.
The elderly Preston claims that at some time Sunday the two men gained control of his car. The four spent all day Sunday driving around Knoxville, Tennessee. At 1:30 am Monday morning police are called to an I-81 rest stop. The report is an elderly disoriented man. Upon arriving they find Percy Preston on his own and he relates the above story.
Almost exactly one hour after Percy is found a call comes into dispatch at Knox County Tennessee. The call is from Tammy Holt age 21 of Jim Sterchi Road. She claims that there is a woman screaming on her front porch. Tammy lives at this residence with Jennifer Northern age 23. Northen says that she yelled for the lady to go away and that they had called 911.
The lady screams (according to Northern and Holt) "He has a knife!"
At this point the lady opens the metal storm door and Northern fires her 12 guage shotgun through the door killing Jane Doe. Two men fled the scene, with Northern's only description as sandy brown hair. She did describe the 1977 Impala. Deputies would find the Impala two blocks away and connect it with the disoriented man on I-81.
The police through evidence in the car find the driver was John K. McCarter 35. Shirley Sue Furgeson who lived with McCarter on Dry Gap Road (where they were picked up) was also arrested and charged with theft from Percy Preston.
**Now does this mean she (Furgeson) was the woman of the three hitchikers and not our Jane Doe? Or was this an assumption made by police at the time? I can find no paper relating the disposition of charges against Ferguson.
McCarter admitted to taking an unidentified man and the Jane Doe to the Northern home. Although records showed his address as Dry gap Road, he claimed to live in a trailer within sight of the Northern home.
Police release a statement that Northern acted in self defense and no charges would be brought against her.
The second man is later identified as: Jerry Lynn Brown of Newport. Newport, Tennessee which is near the I-81 rest stop and just below Bristol where Percy Preston lived.
Synopsis taken from newspaper articles in the Knoxville News Sentinel archives.
Anything with ** before it is my thought and not part of the synopsis.
Percy Preston 76, of Bristol Virginia picked up two men and a woman hitchhiking. He claims he does not remember where he picked them up.
**This is in sharp contrast to the previous theory that she was picked up by two men at a rest stop.
Percy had left his home Saturday night in a white 1977 Impalla and had picked the three up some time Sunday morning.
**Bristol Virginia stradles the Tennessee-Virginia line and is half in Tennessee and half in Virginia. It is just north of the rest stop everyone mentions previous. This leads me to believe he may have picked them up at this rest stop.
The elderly Preston claims that at some time Sunday the two men gained control of his car. The four spent all day Sunday driving around Knoxville, Tennessee. At 1:30 am Monday morning police are called to an I-81 rest stop. The report is an elderly disoriented man. Upon arriving they find Percy Preston on his own and he relates the above story.
Almost exactly one hour after Percy is found a call comes into dispatch at Knox County Tennessee. The call is from Tammy Holt age 21 of Jim Sterchi Road. She claims that there is a woman screaming on her front porch. Tammy lives at this residence with Jennifer Northern age 23. Northen says that she yelled for the lady to go away and that they had called 911.
The lady screams (according to Northern and Holt) "He has a knife!"
At this point the lady opens the metal storm door and Northern fires her 12 guage shotgun through the door killing Jane Doe. Two men fled the scene, with Northern's only description as sandy brown hair. She did describe the 1977 Impala. Deputies would find the Impala two blocks away and connect it with the disoriented man on I-81.
The police through evidence in the car find the driver was John K. McCarter 35. Shirley Sue Furgeson who lived with McCarter on Dry Gap Road (where they were picked up) was also arrested and charged with theft from Percy Preston.
**Now does this mean she (Furgeson) was the woman of the three hitchikers and not our Jane Doe? Or was this an assumption made by police at the time? I can find no paper relating the disposition of charges against Ferguson.
McCarter admitted to taking an unidentified man and the Jane Doe to the Northern home. Although records showed his address as Dry gap Road, he claimed to live in a trailer within sight of the Northern home.
Police release a statement that Northern acted in self defense and no charges would be brought against her.
The second man is later identified as: Jerry Lynn Brown of Newport. Newport, Tennessee which is near the I-81 rest stop and just below Bristol where Percy Preston lived.
