Christopher Hallett, a 50-year-old white man from Ocala, Florida, was shot and killed in his Marion Oaks home on SW 34th Court Road on November 15, 2020. Deputies responding around 9 p.m. found Hallett’s body on the kitchen floor with multiple gunshot wounds. Witnesses reported hearing sounds like firecrackers before finding Hallett with a pained expression and Neely Raye Pesognellie Petrie-Blanchard, a 37-year-old white woman, standing over him with a gun.

That belief is reported to have prompted her to shoot Hallett multiple times. Afterward she allegedly aimed the gun at two witnesses, a woman and her juvenile daughter, but the firearm jammed and they escaped; Petrie-Blanchard fled and was arrested the next day in Lowndes County, Georgia.

Does anyone have more information about Hallett’s life in Marion Oaks or about witnesses who were at the scene?