Justin Dale Posey, 30, was found dead in his Liberty, South Carolina, home in the early morning of December 9, 2018. He was discovered in his bed with a single gunshot wound to the head; investigators say the shot was fired from a hunting rifle while he was asleep. Posey was a 2007 Liberty High School graduate, a father of three who worked with his father in their family lawn care business and enjoyed deer hunting and woodworking.

At about 7:20 a.m. that morning, his wife of 11 years, Tracy Broom Posey, walked into the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office to report her husband had been shot and that she believed he was dead. Deputies who went to the couple’s Posey Hill Road residence confirmed Justin’s death and said they believed no one else was in the home at the time. Police records show deputies had been called to the couple’s home six times in the two years before the shooting for various disturbances.

Tracy Broom Posey, then 31, was arrested and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime and was held in the Pickens County Detention Center after bond was denied. An autopsy was ordered and funeral services were held at Liberty Mortuary Chapel, with burial at Liberty Memorial Gardens. If anyone knew Justin or has information about what happened that morning, please come forward.