Jason Ellison, 28, of Mead Valley, California, was shot and killed on April 17, 2015. He was found in the driveway of a Rogers Road residence with a gunshot wound and died about an hour after being taken to Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department responded to reports of a shooting.

Investigators arrested Jason’s father, 66-year-old Smith Turner Ellison Jr., on suspicion of fatally shooting his son. The confrontation began when Jason came to retrieve an all-terrain vehicle parked at his father’s home; his father refused to open the security gate and told Jason to jump the fence. According to reports at trial, Smith Ellison emerged armed, witnesses described a hostile exchange in which Jason allegedly postured aggressively, and Smith later said he acted in self-defense while the prosecution said the shooting grew out of a property dispute and longstanding resentment.

Smith Turner Ellison Jr. was charged with first-degree murder with firearm and great-bodily-injury enhancements, pleaded not guilty, and was later convicted of second-degree murder. Who knew Jason or saw him around Mead Valley in April 2015?