In a West Columbia neighborhood, 66-year-old long-distance truck driver Michael Duane Funny was killed after a dispute over twenty dollars for yard work. On the evening of August 25, 2022, Funny drove to a Glenn Road residence to pay the father of Cleveland Stone Jr. and, while still seated in his vehicle, asked about Stone’s father. Stone, then in the yard with two friends and his sister and reported to have been drinking for several hours, produced a pistol and shot Funny multiple times in the upper body.

Funny returned fire and struck Stone and a bystander before succumbing to his wounds. Cleveland Stone Jr., 21 at the time, was arrested and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. The prosecution played a recording of a phone survey Funny was completing that captured the shooting; a Stand Your Ground immunity motion was denied. Those who knew Funny or who witnessed the events that night are asked to come forward with any information.