ROGERSVILLE â A Hawkins County man accused of holding his girlfriend against her will for several hours, beating her and threatened to kill her on Sept. 6, was named in a two-count indictment charging him with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated domestic assault.
Brandon Lee Murrell, 27, 289 Byrd Creek Road, Sneedville, was indicted by the Hawkins County grand jury on Dec. 7 and arraigned in Criminal Court on Dec. 11.
He has been held in the Hawkins County Jail on $100,000 bond since his arrest on Sept. 8.
On Sept. 7, the alleged victim told Hawkins County Sheriffâs Office Cpl. Mark Harrell that her boyfriend, Murrell, had beaten her over the course of several hours the previous day at a residence on Spruce Pine Road.