MAIN STREET SHOOTER GARRISON GETS BOND REDUCED FROM $2M TO $100,000

Crossville Chronicle is reporting thatt 42 year old Eric Garrison appears in court. Garrison is charged with second degree murder in the shooting death of Albert Sturgill August 22 in the middle of the street downtown Crossville.

Garrison was represented by Assistant Public Defender Laura Dykes. Dykes asked for Garrison’s two million dollar bond be reduced to $100,000 which special judge Jimmy Hill granted. Her second request was not granted.

Dykes’ argued evidence did not meet the threshold of second-degree murder and a charge of voluntary manslaughter was more appropriate to the facts. She argued the case against Garrison was a “classic” case of a “reasonable person acting in an unreasonable way.”

Assistant District Attorney Philip Hatch countered evidence presented during the hearing does support the charge of second-degree murder. Garrison’s case has been bound over to the Grand Jury.