Joshua Sterling StoltzHey @nbcsnl, clever skit, but for the record, I'm the same height as @therock.
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) March 30, 2015
A 20-year-old man now faces the grand jury on charges that he stabbed his 46-year-old roommate to death.
Charges of criminal homicide and theft against defendant Joshua Stoltz were sent to the Hamilton County grand jury Monday morning by Sessions Court Judge Christie Mahn Sell after a 15-minute hearing.
The grand jury will decide whether there is enough evidence to indict Stoltz on the charges.
On Dec. 6, 2011, authorities found the body of David L. Murray in a pool of blood on the garage floor of his Harrison home at 6422 Ware Branch Cove Drive. Murray's sister had called the sheriff's office after not seeing or hearing from her brother in several days.
An autopsy later showed 10 stab wounds all over Murray's body, including one wound between his eyes and one at the front of his throat.
Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Detective Jeff Baker testified Monday about the wounds on Murray's body, including the slashed throat.
Stoltz had been living with Murray at the Harrison home for several months at the time of the victim's death.
Shortly after finding Murray's body, police issued a nationwide alert with Stoltz' description.
A sheriff's deputy in Lowndes County, Ga., pulled Stoltz over on Dec. 5, 2011, near Valdosta, Ga. Stoltz was driving Murray's maroon Ford F-150 pickup, and the deputy also found oxycodone, marijuana and methamphetamine along with stolen guns inside the truck, according to reports.
The deputy arrested Stoltz on drug and theft-related charges and Stoltz was later extradited to Hamilton County to face a hearing on the homicide charge.
Stoltz enlisted in the Tennessee Army National Guard in March 2010 after graduating from Red Bank High School, records show, and he was discharged May 23, 2011.
A Guard spokesman said he could not release details of the discharge without a Freedom of Information Act request. The Times Free Press filed that request in December but has not yet received the information.
Contact staff writer Todd South at tsouth@timesfree press.com or 423-757-6347.