New Tazewell, TN (WOKI) A New Tazewell man is being charged with killing his wife.
An investigation by special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Claiborne County Sheriff’s Office which began on April 2nd into the death of 49-year-old Lori Ann Hopson found that her husband, 37-year-old Benjamin Wayne Hopson, was responsible for her death.
Lori Ann Hopson was found dead outside of a vehicle in the 500 block of Barren Creek Road.
According to Benjamin Hopson’s arrest warrant, he attacked his wife with a knife while inside the car as they drove down the road. During the attack, the warrant reads, he stabbed her “multiple times in the chest.” The car then crashed, the warrant indicates, and Benjamin Hopson cut his wife’s throat with the knife.
“Shortly after the incident,” the warrant reads, “Benjamin Wayne Hopson was observed by witnesses who described him as being naked, wet, and having blood on his hand and body.”
Benjamin Hopson is charged with criminal homicide and is currently being held on a $1 million bond.
Officials with the Claiborne County Sheriff’s Office have shared that Lori Ann Hopson was a corrections officer who was in charge of the kitchen at the Claiborne County Jail.
