Knoxville, TN (WOKI) The suspect in a deadly Knoxville shooting has been found dead in Florida.

Knoxville Police Department officials providing the update say 40-year-old Kevin Matthews was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday at a hotel in Jacksonville.

KPD says prior to locating Matthews, the U.S. Marshal Service had tracked him across multiple states; officials say Matthews shot himself as USMS personnel approached the hotel room where he was located.

Matthews was the suspect in a shooting that killed Zachery Herrera and John Goosie at The Pint House on Merchant Drive on July 2.

Another man, Stephen Davis, was charged in connection to the shooting; he is facing aggravated assault and parole violation charges.

Lafourche Parish, LA (WOKI) A suspect in a nearly 40-year-old Louisiana cold case has been arrested in East Tennessee.

Officials with the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office say deputies helped Louisiana authorities Wednesday arrest Judith “Judy” Weiser.

Weiser and Russell Lee are charged in the murder of 22-year-old Paula Boudreaux back in 1986. Her remains were found a few years later outside of New Orleans; she was unidentified until last year.

Lee was taken into custody in Missouri on Tuesday.

According to the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office, once Boudreaux’s remains were identified, Lee and Weiser became persons of interest after detectives revealed Lee was in relationships with both Boudreaux and Weiser at the time of the murder.

Investigators determined that Lee and Weiser killed Boudreaux, dismembered her body and dumped the remains in Slidell, a town of less than 30,000 outside of New Orleans, according to the sheriff’s office.

Both Lee and Weiser were charged with second-degree murder and obstruction of justice with bail set at $1.1 million each. Police in Louisiana said they will be taken and booked into the Lafourche Parish Correctional Complex.

Knoxville, TN (WOKI) Hemp retailers in East Tennessee are planning to sue the state Department of Agriculture because of new rules the agency is creating.

The Department of Agriculture is looking to redefine what’s legal in Tennessee, which could cause business owners to lose more than half of the products on their shelves.

Now, hemp stores are on a time crunch to stop the state’s new rules. The emergency rules include changing how the state tests hemp.

The Department of Agriculture is creating rules in an attempt to get rid of products closely related to a marijuana high from store shelves.

Lawyers working with hemp stores say other states have had court cases on this and the hemp stores have won.