WOMAN CHARGED IN OVERDOSE DEATH OF ROANE YOUTH - Ferguson Acquitted In Infant's Death

(09/30/2004)

Another murder case has surfaced in Roane County. Twenty-two-year-old Crystal Coon of Gay has been indicted for the alleged drug death of 18-year-old Benjamin Murray of Reedyville on March 5. She is accused of providing methadone to Murray, which reportedly led to his death. Murray's brother, 20-year old Nathan Murray, died several months earlier following a brutal clubbing at a Spencer bar. Despite the confrontation, authorities ruled that the elder Murray also died of a drug overdose. A court has acquitted Dreu Ferguson Jr. of Spencer on charges related to the death of his infant son. Ferguson remains in jail without bond on a charge which alleges he shot his neighbor, William Freas III, while Freas was sitting on his porch in downtown Spencer. Read TIMES RECORD "Woman charged with murder for providing drug" Read TIMES RECORD "Father acquitted in baby's death" www.thetimesrecord.net

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