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A 31-year-old Townsend man was indicted Monday on the charge of voluntary manslaughter of Howard Jay Webb, who was stabbed on April 12 and died April 21, 2007.
Brian Keith Caylor, 31, Lovers Lane, Townsend, was indicted by a Blount County grand jury.
According to the indictment filed in Blount County Circuit Court, the grand jury found that Caylor “intentionally or knowingly did kill Howard Jay Webb” while he “was in a state of passion produced by adequate provocation sufficient to lead a reasonable person to act in an irrational manner.”
Webb, 28, Pig Pen Hollow Road, Townsend, was stabbed at a residence on Carrs Creek Road, Townsend, on April 12 and died April 21. Investigators said the stabbing was a result of an ongoing dispute between Webb and Caylor.
According to a Blount County Sheriff’s Office report from Sept. 10, 2005, Caylor was the victim of an alleged assault by Webb. The report states Caylor reported that Webb and another man struck him several times, which resulted in Caylor having a broken nose and sinus and a cut on his eyebrow. On Aril 12, 2007, Blount County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the report of a stabbing on Carrs Creek Road. While deputies were en route to the scene, Webb was being taken by personal vehicle to Parkway Grocery on East Lamar Alexander Parkway in Townsend.
The victim and those trying to help him were met by Townsend Volunteer Fire Department First Responders and Rural/Metro Ambulance Service paramedics. Webb was taken to Blount Memorial Hospital, and he was later moved by LifeStar to University of Tennessee Medical Center.
Deputies who spoke to witnesses at Parkway Grocery were told the man responsible for Webb’s stab wounds was still at the scene on Carrs Creek Road, according to an earlier sheriff’s office report. Deputies went to that location and took Caylor into custody.
Caylor and other witnesses were questioned, but a warrant charging him with aggravated assault was not served until detectives interviewed the victim Friday evening at UT hospital. When Webb died as a result of the assault, Blount County District Attorney General Mike Flynn said the sheriff’s office and the district attorney’s office would work together to re-evaluate the charge against Caylor pending autopsy results on Webb’s body.
The autopsy, filed in Blount County Circuit Court, revealed that Webb died of multiple stab wounds. The autopsy report said Webb had stab wounds in his chest, abdomen and upper arm.