Three people were confirmed dead after an early Monday shooting and one man, Charlie Harrison of Westmoreland, who lives near the border between Macon and Sumner counties, is in custody, after being apprehended at a Bethpage convenience store.
The victims are identified as Jamey Wayne Holland, Jessica Danielle Bentle and Mooesto Retureta.
The Macon County Sheriff’s Office and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation were called to the scene.
Police responded to a cell phone call from a woman who heard gunfire shortly after leaving the Highland Road mobile home early Monday morning.
Harrison is currently being held in Macon County without bond, according to the arrest report, suspected in the triple homicide.
According to Macon County Sheriff Mark Gammons, the female caller heard the gunfire and hid in the woods. After the suspect left, she entered the mobile home and found the three victims.
Two victims were dead at the scene, the third was pronounced dead later at the Hendersonville Medical Center, where an emergency stop was made while being evacuated by air to Vanderbilt Memorial Hospital.
Several reports have stated that drugs, including meth, may be a motive. “We are unsure of motive at this time,” he said Monday.
“And although no drugs were found at the scene, paraphernailia was located at this home.”
Both the Macon County Sheriff’s Department and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation are interviewing prospective witnesses and conducting an investigation into the murders.