On the night of November 17, 2015, 70-year-old Joseph Frey was killed during a shooting at a home on Narrow Paved Road in the Lynchburg area of Sumter County. Deputies responding to an emergency call found Frey inside suffering multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Another man present, George Shine, had also been shot in the chest and was flown to a Florence hospital.

Investigators initially questioned a small circle of people who had been in the house. Florence resident Travis Jones, 43, was later charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly giving false statements to detectives. Prosecutors identified Shine as the person who fired the fatal shots and charged him with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. Court testimony described a close-range exchange in which Frey reportedly shot Shine first and Shine fired back with a rifle. Judge Kristi Curtis later found Shine not guilty by reason of self-defense in a bench trial, closing the criminal prosecution.

Did anyone in the Lynchburg area have prior knowledge of tensions between these men or recall that night in 2015?