The woman fatally electrocuted early this morning while allegedly attempting to remove copper wire from a live power line inside the former Carl Black Chevrolet building at 600 Murfreesboro Pike is identified as Viola Farnsworth, 36.
Farnsworth, of Shepard Street, and three men, Curtis Crawford, 28, Francis Cunningham, 20, and Joseph Salisbury, 28, entered the building around midnight. The men drove off in Farnsworth’s 1997 Plymouth Breeze after she was electrocuted. Hermitage Precinct Patrol Officer Charles Large stopped the car on Murfreesboro Pike at 1:45 a.m. because the headlights were off. Burglary tools and copper wire were located inside the Plymouth. All three men admitted to the break-in. Farnsworth’s body was discovered a short time later.
Salisbury and Crawford, both of Shepard Street, and Cunningham, who is homeless, are all charged with theft of property and possession of burglary tools. Crawford has a previous burglary conviction.
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