John Jeffery Turner was 56 and lived in Gillsville when he was shot dead on November 22, 2019. Deputies responded about 6:43 p.m. to 851 Highway 323 in Banks County and found him with an apparent gunshot wound; officials immediately treated it as a homicide and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation assisted.

Authorities described the shooting as believed to have grown out of a domestic dispute, though reports did not specify what triggered the confrontation or how it escalated.

Turner was remembered in obituaries as Jeff, a Gainesville-born business owner, with funeral and burial information listing Lula. Did anyone in the area know Jeff or have information about what led up to that November night?