MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) — Authorities have arrested a 27-year-old man for his connection to his girlfriend’s death in Murfreesboro.
The Murfreesboro Police Department said David Ivy told family members he’d been in a domestic incident and threatened to take his own life on Thursday, April 9. The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office found Ivy at a home on Steelson Court and took him into custody.
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After learning Ivy’s girlfriend lived on Tinnell Court, law enforcement said they responded to her house and found 26-year-old Hannah Jackson dead inside. Ivy was charged with first-degree homicide, unlawful possession of a weapon while committing a dangerous felony, and especially aggravated burglary.
“It’s extremely heartbreaking that someone had to lose their life to someone that they trusted or cared about or that they loved, and I know that that is the story for so many victims or survivors,” Haylee McPherson Bush, Senior VP of Operations for Volunteer Behavioral Health, told News 2…