The woman charged with tampering with evidence in the Japeth Gilley case appeared in Circuit Court Wednesday morning. 

Natasha Lynn Bryant Fults was charged with two counts of tampering with evidence in the Gilley case. On Feb. 2, 2021, Gilley, 19, was inside a vehicle which pulled up to the emergency room at Ascension Saint Thomas River Park Hospital. Hospital staff helped get him inside and the vehicle drove away. He had a gunshot wound to the head and was transported to Vanderbilt Medical University where he later succumbed to his injury. The Gilley family is still looking for answers in relation to the death of Japeth. 

Fults was arrested on June 8 and released the same day after making her bond of $2,500. She was indicted on June 2 on two counts of tampering with evidence. She reportedly tampered with Gilley’s body and the contents in his pockets. 

During court on Wednesday, Fults was scheduled to be arraigned. She was given additional time to finish hiring an attorney. She is hiring Thomas Austin and will be back in court on Sept. 6 at 10:30 a.m.