Christopher A. Upton, a 37-year-old U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officer, was shot and killed while on patrol at the Ocmulgee Bluff Equestrian Trailhead in Oconee National Forest, Jasper County, Georgia, during the late hours of a March evening in 2010. He was conducting surveillance when a group of men were in the woods hunting coyotes with a high-powered rifle and night-vision scope. Norman Clinton Hale, firing from the bed of a pickup truck, later said he thought he saw a coyote’s eyes and fired; the shot struck Officer Upton.

After the shooting, a member of the hunting party discovered someone had been hit, but no one immediately called for emergency assistance or rendered aid; more than an hour passed before a 911 call was made and Upton died of his injuries. The investigation led to Hale’s arrest. In November 2011 Hale pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, hindering a federal investigation, and hunting violations and was sentenced to five years in prison and three years of probation.

Did anyone who knew Officer Upton or was in that area that night come forward with additional information?