31-year-old Jermal Cannon was taken into custody on Thursday in connection to the 2023 murder of Chris Hill.

On December 13, 2023, KPD officers were dispatched to 218 E. Depot Avenue, where 51-year-old Chris Hill was found shot multiple times and lying unresponsive next to a box truck. Hill, an area plumber, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Following continued, yearslong investigation led by KPD Homicide Unit detectives into the circumstances of Hill’s death, Cannon was recently indicted by a Knox County Grand Jury for first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, solicitation of first-degree murder and felony theft.

On Thursday at just after 6 p.m., KPD Community Engagement Response Team officers spotted Cannon leaving an apartment on Austin Homes Boulevard and stopped the car he was traveling in around Summit Hill Drive and Patton Street. Cannon, who was a passenger in the vehicle, was taken into custody without issue.

Cannon has been booked into the Roger D. Wilson Detention Facility, where he is being held on a $2 million bond.