On the evening of April 8, 2022, 75-year-old Evelyn Hawk was found shot to death inside Lock, Stock, and Barrel Shooting Range in Grantville, Georgia, the family business she and her husband had run for nearly three decades. Her husband, 75-year-old Tommy Hawk, and her grandson, teenager Luke Hawk, were also found fatally shot; the victims were discovered by Evelyn’s son, Richard Hawk, who served as the Coweta County Coroner. Investigators described the scene as ransacked and reported about 40 firearms missing from the shop; the range’s security video recorder was also taken.

Local police called in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Within days a suspect was identified and arrested: 21-year-old Jacob Christian Muse of College Park, a customer who reportedly knew the family. Authorities said a search of Muse’s residence turned up the cache of stolen firearms, and he was charged with three counts of malice murder and related counts stemming from an apparent robbery-turned-homicide.

What details about that night or the people involved might help explain how such a brazen attack happened at a long-standing family business?