Lenoir City Man Indicted in January Knoxville Murder

Reginald Depriest, 26 (Courtesy: KPD)

Lenoir City Man Indicted in January Knoxville Murder

Knoxville, TN (WOKI) A Lenoir City man has been indicted for first-degree murder in the death of a woman in January in Knoxville.

Knoxville Police Department officials say the indictment comes after KPD officers took 26-year-old Reginald Depriest into custody on January 5; they say Depriest had turned himself in.

According to KPD, Depriest killed 39-year-old Andrea Moore at a Western Heights apartment in the 1400 block of W. Oldham Avenue.

The investigation was prompted by a call saying there was a body inside the apartment. At the time, police called the death “suspicious in nature.”

Reginald Depriest, 26 (Courtesy: KPD)