Jury convicts Curtis Day of second-degree murder in fatal fentanyl overdose

A Cheatham County jury on the second day of trial found Curtis Day guilty of second-degree murder for distributing a Schedule II drug that prosecutors say was the proximate cause of Jordan Knight’s fatal October 2020 overdose.

The verdict followed testimony from three witnesses the state identified as central to its case: Tristan Matthews, who rode with Jordan Knight on Oct. 3, 2020 and described the purchase and use of drugs that evening; Amanda Gale Gober, who said she delivered packaged drugs from the defendant’s trailer to the vehicle; and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents and Cheatham County investigators who presented phone‑record mappings, scene photographs and laboratory testing showing fentanyl and heroin in a recovered sample.

Prosecutors told jurors the evidence showed drugs left the defendant’s trailer in Davidson County and were used that night, and that Knight died of the toxic effects of fentanyl (with methamphetamine also present). Defense attorneys urged the jurors to reject what they called inconsistent witness statements and gaps in the physical‑evidence chain.

The trial record showed the following core facts the state relied on: Matthews testified that on Oct. 3, 2020 he and Jordan Knight drove from Clarksville toward…