NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — After being charged with child endangerment and setting her home on fire, a woman is fighting back by suing the Metro Nashville government and a former Nashville arson investigator.
Jennifer Parker claims she did not start the 2018 fire at her house near Percy Priest Lake, but rather her daughter, Kalissa Parker, started the fire in an effort to kill herself.
“Ms. Parker’s rights were violated by being indicted on false charges,” said Kyle Mothershead, Jennifer’s attorney.
In January 2018, firefighters rescued a woman and a young child from a house fire, but they also found an 18-year-old woman — later identified as Kalissa — dead in a back room.
At the time, investigators said the fire started on the first floor and they found signs of an accelerant on a stairway and an empty jug of party torch fuel in the garage.
Nearly three years later, Jennifer was indicted by a grand jury and spent six weeks in jail before being able to post bond, according to the lawsuit.
In the lawsuit, Jennifer’s attorney claimed the Nashville Fire Department arson investigator, “made numerous misleading and outright false statements to the grand jury,” in 2021 and “lacked probable cause to charge Ms. Parker.”
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