CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – The jury trial for a man charged with the 2019 murder of a Fort Campbell soldier began on Monday.
Adriam Hodge, 26, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Army Spc. Kendrick Grayer, 23.
On July 3, 2019, at about 11 p.m., police responded to shots fired call off of Eighth Street. Officers arrived to find Grayer on a basketball court with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a Nashville hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Though police had little to go on at the time, two days later a suspect was in custody. A police investigation uncovered there was a fight between Grayer and an unarmed man. Hodge then pulled out a handgun and shot Grayer multiple times.
At around 4 p.m. July 5, 2019, Clarksville Police Department Special Operations agents went to the Ernest Shelton Drive and Lincoln Drive area, where they took Hodge into custody without incident.
Hodges’ charges include a multitude of drug possession and exchange charges, two counts of felon in possession of a firearm, coercion of a witness and first-degree murder. The trial that began this week is on the murder charge only.
Clarification: This week’s trial is on the first-degree murder charge only.