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NEW DETAILS: Four charged in connection to Knox double murders

Katie Allison Granju Emily Stroud     Updated: 1/12/2007 11:36:46 PM    Posted: 1/11/2007 2:07:08 PM
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Knoxville police confirm that four men were charged Friday in connection with the case of Chris Newsom, 23, and Channon Christian, 21. None are charged with their murders. Lemarcus Davidson is charged with carjacking. Eric Boyd and George Thomas are charged with accessory after the fact. Letalvis Cobbins is charged as a convicted felon in possession of ammunition. According to an affidavit Boyd told police where Davidson was hiding and that he was armed. Also in the affidavit, Boyd told police Davidson said one of the carjackers walked up to Christian's Toyota 4-Runner with a gun and forcibly abducted Christian and Newsom. Davidson told Boyd both Christian and Newsom were driven to 2316 Chipman Street. Thomas' criminal complaint states Cobbins admitted to law enforcement the he participated in the armed carjacking of a vehicle occupied by Christian and Newsom. Sources say Christian and Newsom most likely died Sunday pending final autopsy results. According to the affidavit Chris Newsom, 23, shot several times. Chief Deputy US Marshal for the Western District of Kentucky, Rick Knighten said Channon Christian, 21, was apparently raped before she was murdered and left in a home at 2316 Chipman Street. KPD SWAT officers took Lemarcus Davidson, one of two brothers originally named as persons of interest in the case, into custody in Knoxville just after 3:00 p.m. Thursday. Police found him in a home in the Mechanicsville neighborhood, and he was taken without incident. Letalvus Cobbins was found inside a house in Lebanon, Kentucky. Lebanon is located approximately one hour southwest of Lexington. A third man, identified as George Thomas, was also taken into custody, along with Cobbins. Federal and local law enforcement agents from both Kentucky and Tennessee cooperated to take the men into custody. "If the allegations are correct, these people are dangerous and we had to do what we could to get them off the street before they hurt someone else," says Knighten. All four men are in jail and no bond hearing has currently been set for Davidson and Boyd. They both have preliminary hearings in Federal Court next Thursday. Thomas and Cobbins have a hearing next week to move them from Kentucky to Tennessee.



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