Admitted to being alone with Eddy in her apartment the night before her murder
Friends and acquaintances on Wednesday described a woman slain last week in her Hollywood Drive apartment as an inspirational person who enjoyed volunteering for the Regional Inter-Faith Association.
Thorn said that Eddy first came to RIFA’s Learning Center on Feb. 13, but Donna Vickers, RIFA’s executive director, said that Eddy started coming to RIFA about two months earlier. “Dec. 21 was the first time she came,” Vickers said. “She wanted a sack of food and she also wanted a Bible. So we got her those things, and we also prayed with her.”
A murder suspect, Christopher Michael Diggs, 33, of West Park Place in Jackson, was arraigned at 8 a.m. Wednesday in Jackson City Court. He is being held at the J. Alexander Leech Criminal Justice Complex.
Jenni Thorn, the Regional Inter-Faith Association’s life-enrichment program coordinator, described Teresa Eddy, 50 (pictured right), as a woman who, “was always asking to help.”
Eddy’s body has been sent to Nashville for an autopsy to determine her cause of death. But Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Adele Lewis gave a preliminary autopsy report describing the cause and manner of death, according to an affidavit of complaint in the case.
The report also included the specific injuries Eddy sustained and ruled her death a homicide. But details about how Eddy was killed have not been released by police.
The results had not been released when Diggs was developed as a suspect by police and taken into custody Sunday.