Cumberland County, TN (WOKI) A Crossville woman has been charged with
second-degree murder following an investigation.

Officials with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation say 35-year-old Jerica Marie Hayes was indicted Monday, charged with one count of second-degree murder and one count of delivery of fentanyl, in the death of 35-year-old Samuel Mashburn.

TBI says Mashburn was found dead on September 14, 2021 in the driveway of a home on Willow Street in Crossville and that an autopsy determined he died from acute combined multiple drug intoxication.

TBI’s investigation lead to Hayes, a friend of Mashburn’s, as the person who supplied him with fentanyl.

According to TBI, Hayes is currently housed at the Cumberland County Jail on a $1 million bond.