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Earlier this week, several high profile cases were heard in Washington County Criminal Court, including three murder cases and one involving 25 people charged in a drug conspiracy. ....
It took a governorâs warrant to get a North Carolina man back to Washington County to face a murder charge from 2016, according to the sheriffâs office. Zefrin Leigh Parker, 31, a homeless man found in the Asheville, North Carolina, area, had been held in the Buncombe County jail since Dec. 10, 2020. Heâs accused of killing 40-year-old Keila Marie Gilbert-Taylor and is now in the Washington County Detention Center, where he was served with the murder warrant Thursday. Taylorâs body was found on the banks of the Watauga River by two men scouting for fishing spots. Parker had fought his extradition, which lengthened the process to get him back to Jonesborough. ....
Here are some of the high-profile local public safety stories in chronological order from 2020: April 12: Adam Joseph Decker, 34, told investigators that a 9 mm weapon he was holding went off accidentally while he and Kristi Breland were cooking dinner on Easter Sunday. Decker told 911 dispatchers he had accidentally shot his live-in girlfriend at 107 M Coffey Lane, located in southern Washington County just below the Nolichucky River near Erwin. Deputies arrived to find Breland, 30, dead in the kitchen and Decker in the dining room. The couple had friends over earlier in the day for some target shooting. After the friends left, the couple went back into their residence and got into an alcohol-fueled argument, authorities said. Decker told police he decided to go to bed and when he picked up his pistol, it went off. ....
Fishermen found womanâs body along Watauga River Washington County Sheriffâs Office investigators said Wednesday a cold-case murder from Christmas Eve 2016 may have been committed by a North Carolina man. In a press release, investigators said DNA found near Keila Marie Gilbert-Taylorâs body on the banks of the Watauga River recently matched an offender database entry for Zefrin Leigh Parker, 31, a homeless man found in the Asheville, North Carolina, area. Parker was being held in the Buncombe County Jail in North Carolina, and his extradition to Tennessee on a warrant charging him with felony murder is pending. Taylorâs body was found four years ago by two men scouting for fishing spots. Taylor, 40, had a last known address in Kingsport. ....