Crime & Safety
Two Charged with February Murder in Priest Lake
Latasha Starks and Jerome Sawyers charged with first-degree murder of Algernon Cross.
LA VERGNE, TN — A La Vergne woman was arrested late Tuesday for the February murder of a Nashville man in Priest Lake.
Latasha Starks, 38, is charged with the murder of Algernon Cross, who was shot and killed in a parking lot on Bell Road in February. Jerome Sawyers, 36, was also indicted for first-degree murder; he is in federal custody in Arkansas.
Cross was riding with a female relative Feb. 12 and told her to pull into the parking lot upon seeing someone he recognized. He was then shot and killed.
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Sawyers was charged with tampering with evidence at the time of the shooting after he took something from Cross' pockets and threw it in a nearby creek.
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