James ’Jim’ Kennedy Smith was a 75-year-old Whitmire, South Carolina resident who was found dead from a gunshot wound inside his home at 123 Wilkerson Road on Sunday, October 2, 2016. A Union County deputy response to a domestic dispute call that afternoon turned into a homicide investigation; Sheriff David Taylor said the shooting resulted from a domestic dispute and that investigators had identified a suspect who had retained an attorney. The sheriff’s office sought a written statement and treated the matter as an active investigation but did not disclose further specifics about what sparked the argument.

Smith was a U.S. Air Force veteran and long-time foreman with Eagle Construction Company, known in Whitmire as Cowboy for his boots and hat and remembered by family for farming, gardening, and caring for his son. Does anyone have additional information about the investigation or the case outcome?