Timeline before and after Jasmine Pace's Murder

WATCH THE TIMELINE OF EVENTS:

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd, 2022

Jasmine’s great-grandmother passed away, who helped raise her.

11:27 pm Jasmine Pace leaves her parents' house

11:42 pm Jasmine Pace arrives at Jason Chen's Tremont Street apartment (via RTIC video - the police surveillance camera on Tremont Street).

**Jasmine’s car arriving at Jason Chem’s Apartment**

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd, 2022

2:11 am A scream in the apartment above her awakens a downstairs neighbor of Chen's. She said she heard footsteps running from the bedroom to the front door. She heard a female voice "sad and emphatic" & the tail end of an argument. Hears a front door slam.

2:18 am Jasmine Pace sends a ping of her location to her mother, Catrina Bean.

2:31 am A downstairs neighbor hears the TV turn on in Chen's bedroom.

Around 3:00 am, That neighbor hears a garbage disposal & washing machine in Chen's apartment.

4:04 am to 4:28 am Jason Chen tries to access Jasmine Pace's bank accounts using her phone.

9:52 am On his phone, Chen responds to a Tinder message from “Victoria” by saying: "So I guess we're dating now."

10:29 am Chen emerges from his apartment (RTIC camera), and drives off with both his & Jasmine's phone. Prosecutors said Jason Chen sent a text to Jasmine Pace's phone after she died to 'throw investigators off the digital trail.' The message from Chen was received on Pace's phone and marked as 'read.'

10:42 am Chen arrives at Signal Mountain Walmart. Chen sends a "slept like a baby? made myself a macha" text to Jasmine's phone.

11:00 am Chen checks out items bought at Walmart (via Walmart video)

Somewhere between 11:00 am-12:30 pm, Chen drives up & down Suck Creek Road (via cellphone records)

12:38 pm Chen arrives back at Tremont Street apartment (via RTIC video)

12:43 pm Chen attempts to access the cloud on Pace's phone and posts on Pace's Facebook account posing as her.

1:36 pm Chen leaves Tremont Street apartment (RTIC video) & goes to North Market Street Walgreens (RTIC video), buys more cleaning supplies (Walgreens video), and returns home.

2:56 pm Chen drives to Suck Creek Road a second time (cellphone records).

4:03 pm: He texted Pace's phone, "Hey, are we still good for dinner tonight?" The message was marked 'read' on Pace's phone.

5:59 pm: Chen leaves the Tremont Street apartment with a suitcase (RTIC video) and pulls out of the parking lot in a grey Toyota Camry.

6:49 pm Chen removes Pace's phone's SIM card, and Pace's phone "goes dark."

8:26 pm Chen leaves his Tremont Street apartment wearing a face mask (Neighbor Doug Lynch Ring camera video)

At 8:27 pm, Jasmine Pace's car starts up (MyChevy app), and Chen drops Pace's car off at the apartments on Mountain Creek Road (Apartment surveillance camera).

8:41 pm: A dark-colored Toyota Prius is seen entering the apartment complex at 900 Mountain Creek Road. We learn this is a Lyft driver.

8:50 pm Chen is dropped off at Tremont Street apartment by Lyft driver.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24th, 2022 (Thanksgiving)

Jason Chen did not eave his apartment

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25th, 2022

Jason goes home to Nolensville, TN

Jason didn’t leave Chattanooga until Friday afternoon. He finally got into his car around 3:00 PM Eastern time and arrived at his parents’ house in Nolensville, TN, at 4:50 PM Central time.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26th, 2022

This is the day CPD became involved in this case.
On Jasmine Pace's Facebook page, a photo post captioned "Thanksgiving with my baby." appears. Her family begins reaching out to Jasmine out of concern.
Several messages are sent from Jasmine's phone to friends and family, none of whom spoke with her on the phone. In all messages, Jasmine says she wants to be alone.
Later in court, Jasmine’s mother, Catrina Bean, testified that she used the "MyChevy" app to track Jasmine's phone that night.
8:27 pm: Catrina Bean also later testified that she found her daughter's abandoned vehicle near the Signal View condominiums off Mountain Creek Road. She noticed the seat had been adjusted for someone taller than Jasmine, who was 5' 2".
Catrina Bean calls 911 about her daughter's disappearance.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27th, 2022

5:27 pm Bodycam footage of Catrina Bean at 210 Tremont - Jason Chen’s apartment
5:37 pm, Crawford was made aware of the missing person case, 30 minutes later he was brought in.
7:30 pm Crawford meets with the Jasmine Pace’s family
Pace tells officers that over the weekend, she and her husband went to 110 Tremont Street to speak with residents when they discovered her boyfriend, Jason Chen, lived in an apartment there.
An affidavit says Jasmine’s mother, Catrina Bean, entered his apartment and found Jasmine's driver's license and several credit cards but didn't find Chen or Jasmine.
That affidavit says Catrina Bean told officers a neighbor told her they'd heard a loud disturbance around 2 a.m. on November 22nd.
Chattanooga Police request and are granted a warrant to search Chen's apartment.
An affidavit WTVC obtained a few days later says police found blood on the living room hardwood floor, bathroom grout, and bedroom carpet, along with blood splatter on the bathroom wall. They also found several cleaning supplies that had been recently purchased and noted broken glass and other evidence that suggested "a violent altercation."
WTVC posted the first story on NewsChannel 9.com about Jasmine's disappearance after Chattanooga Police confirmed it was an "active investigation."
Jason Chen returns to the North Shore area of Chattanooga. But he never goes back to his apartment. Cell phone records show him stopping just west of Tremont Street, near Renaissance Park—a small green space just a few blocks away from the Lofts at Tremont, where he lived. Then he drives toward Hixson, TN, and then drives back to his parents' home in Nolensville, TN

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28th, 2022

Chattanooga Police obtain video footage from inside the apartment complex. An affidavit says that footage showed Chen leaving the building with a mask on and black fabric wrapped around his hand.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29th, 2022

11:40 pm Crawford arrived in Nolensville, TN, with a search and arrest warrant.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30th, 2022

Hamilton County District Attorney Coty Wamp and the police chief in Nolensville, Tennessee (near Nashville) announced that officers arrested Jason Chen at his family's home on criminal homicide charges.
Wamp says the arrest came after a search warrant of Chen's Tremont Street apartment found enough evidence to charge Chen.
An arrest affidavit says Chen had lacerations on his right hand that indicated he had been in some physical fight.
Chen was initially taken to jail in Nolensville, Tennessee, but on this date, he returned to Hamilton County, where he was held behind bars without bond.
Later in the day, WTVC obtained the affidavit outlining the evidence that police say led them to charge Chen (see November 27th above).
Later in the day, Catrina Pace posted to Facebook, saying, "The outpouring of true love and support from the community this past week has meant more than I can explain. I ask that our community and everyone who has been affected by this horrific event, everyone who has a daughter, a sister, a mother, or a grandmother, can sympathize with what we are being forced to process."
UTC confirms that Jason Chen is a student and is cooperating with investigators on the case.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1st, 2022

Jasmine's stepfather confirms to our newsroom that Jasmine's body has been located off Suck Creek Road.
A few hours later, Chattanooga Police confirmed that human remains stuffed inside a suitcase and dumped off the side of Suck Creek Road just outside Chattanooga were those of Jasmine Pace.

Image: NewsChannel 9 SkyView camera.

DECEMBER 2nd, 2022

WATCH: Family friends of Jasmine Pace asking for justice as they remember her life

DECEMBER 6th, 2022

Jason Chen appears in court for a bond hearing. Several supporters and family members of Jasmine Pace were in the courtroom for the brief hearing.

DECEMBER 8th, 2022