Overview
- Authorities say a 16-year-old, Star Grant, and 28-year-old Devan Loving are jailed in Gatlinburg on first-degree murder and conspiracy charges in the killing of three relatives in Fairview.
- Deputies found Travis Eugene Grant, Kimberly Michelle Grant, and Sharon Harwood Grant shot to death inside the family’s home after earlier welfare checks did not allow them to enter.
- Gatlinburg officers forced open a locked Motel 6 room, found the pair in a bed, and took them into custody after several days at the hotel.
- In a Tennessee hearing, Loving said he might not fight extradition to North Carolina to face the charges.
- Investigators from the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office, the North Carolina and Tennessee bureaus of investigation, and Gatlinburg police coordinated the cross-state search, and officials have not released a motive.