Whitehaven Man Indicted in Friend’s Death

Sept. 22, 2021 – A Whitehaven man was indicted Tuesday in the shooting death this summer of a longtime friend whose body was found in the driver’s seat of his car at a Parkway Village motel, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

   A grand jury indicted Ashley Eugene Hervery, 39, on a count of first-degree murder. He is being held without bond.

   The shooting occurred shortly after 6 a.m. on July 21 this year on the parking lot of Home 1 Extended Stay at 4300 American Way near South Goodlett.

   Police found 40-year-old Travis Cole in his car, dead from a gunshot wound to the neck. Hervery was developed as a suspect after officers reviewed surveillance video of the lot. He was arrested the following day at his home.

   Hervery gave police a statement about the shooting and told officers where he had hidden his gun.

   The case is being handled by Asst. Dist. Atty. Brad Reasonover of the District Attorney’s Vertical Team 3 which handles cases in General Sessions Division 11 and in Criminal Court Division 3.