MADISONVILLE-A man charged in the first Madisonville homicide since late 1990s had his case bound over to a Monroe County Grand Jury last week.

Leon McKenley Bell, 24, saw a charge of second-degree murder against him sent to the grand jury after Judge Reed Dixon listened to testimony in a preliminary hearing in Monroe County General Sessions Court Tuesday.

Madisonville Police Detective Daniel Dockery said it was just before 11:30 a.m. Sept. 14 when police were told of a stabbing at a home on 3rd Street. Dockery said a man named James Terrance Davis had been stabbed multiple times and was taken to UT Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

A witness told Dockery that Davis, 30, McGhee Street, Madisonville, was walking on 3rd Street when he started to cut across a lawn and was confronted by Leon Bell. The witness said the two began to yell at each other, then began to physically fight.

See full story in the Sunday, Nov. 4, edition of The Advocate & Democrat.