Charles Stinson was 35 when he was one of six people executed in a brutal home invasion on July 27, 1977, in Carol City, Florida. The attack took place at a house described in reports as a drug house; three men entered, tied up eight people and shot several victims in the head. Stinson, along with Henry Clayton, Randolph Holmes, Michael Miller, Livingston Stocker and Gilbert Williams, died; two others survived.

Authorities later connected the Carol City killings to a series of violent crimes between 1974 and 1978 and charged John Errol Ferguson, Marvin Francois and Beauford White in the massacre. The three men were prosecuted for the murders and received death sentences after a trial that laid out the execution-style nature of the killings.

Does anyone have information about Charles Stinson’s life in the Carol City area or knew him before July 27, 1977?