William Carter Lee was 65 when he was shot to death in his West Point, Georgia, apartment on the night of December 18, 2017. Officers responding to a midnight call about a possible shooting found Lee unresponsive on his couch at 1303 Avenue K, Apt. B, with multiple gunshot wounds to his leg and abdomen; he was pronounced dead at 1:25 a.m.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigations processed the scene, and a suspect was taken into custody a few hours later. Authorities arrested 63-year-old Freddy Lee Sutton at the Town and Country Hotel in LaGrange and charged him with murder and with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Motive had not been released and investigators asked anyone with information to come forward.

Did anyone in West Point or LaGrange notice suspicious activity around Avenue K or the Town and Country Hotel on December 18, 2017?