The man and woman suspected of the August 19 brutual murder of a 20-year-old Clarksville resident who was lured to a home on Maplecrest Drive in Donelson are now in custody.
Clarksville Police Sunday night, while investigating a domestic violence call involving Jeremiah Henderson, 18, and Markaisha Keal, 20, saw that both were wanted in Nashville on outstanding criminal homicide warrants. Both were arrested. Keal was returned to Nashville today and booked. Henderson remains jailed in Montgomery County and will be returned here after his issues in Clarksville are resolved.
Keal and Henderson are accused of killing Xavier Johnson outside 2207 Maplecrest Drive, part of which is a short-term rental that was not in use at the time.
The investigation shows that Johnson and Keal had been communicating via Instagram. They arrived at the location just before 1 a.m. and she led him to the rear of the property. A gunman, alleged to have been Henderson, was waiting nearby, ran up on the victim and shot him multiple times. He and the female accomplice then went through Johnson’s pockets and took his belongings.
Homicide Unit Detective Arthur Hipp linked Keal and Henderson to this case and learned that they fled Nashville the following day on a Greyhound bus bound for Biloxi, Mississippi. Criminal homicide warrants were issued on October 31 and entered into a national law enforcement database.
Keal is being held without bond in the Metro jail pending a hearing. A fugitive hold has been placed on Henderson in Montgomery County.
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