Chad Lee Kennedy, 38, of Stony Point, North Carolina, was found shot to death at his Mount Wesley Church Road residence on February 9, 2019. A second victim, 57-year-old Mark Jefferson Furey of Taylorsville, was also found shot and died; both bodies were discovered in different areas inside Kennedy’s home around noon that day.

After about a monthlong investigation, three people were arrested on March 15, 2019. Robert Bryan Hoover, 36, of Stony Point, and Adam Thomas Morgan, 20, of Stony Point, were charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Brandy Lynn Miller, 28, of Stony Point, was charged with two counts of accessory after the fact. All three were taken into custody without incident and held without bond; Hoover and Miller were located in Smyth County, Virginia, while Morgan was found at a Taylorsville residence and held at the Alexander County Detention Center.

In November 2022 Morgan pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and received a sentence of 221 to 278 months, with credit for time served; he had been in custody since March 2019. At that time Hoover remained charged with two counts of first-degree murder and Miller faced two counts of accessory after the fact of first-degree murder, and both were still awaiting trial. Did anyone in the community have contact with Chad Kennedy or Mark Furey in early February 2019 that could shed light on what happened?