KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ( WATE ) — Joshua Carr’s case will be moving to trial in September after a judge has declined a plea agreement that would have downgraded the charges against Carr in relation to the brutal death of his mother and injury of his grandmother, according to his attorney.
Joshua Carr is facing charges of first degree murder and aggravated assault in a case that began in 2020. Officials previously shared that Carr’s mother, Pamela Carr, was stabbed 77 times and ‘nearly decapitated,’ and his grandmother Anna Matthews, testified that she was stabbed in the hand while attempting to help her daughter during the attack.
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Attorney Greg Isaacs, who is representing Joshua Carr, shared that the trial is scheduled to begin on September 16, 2024, after the judge rejected a plea agreement that would have downgraded the charges from first degree murder to second-degree murder and from aggravated assault to assault.