On the evening of May 20, 2017, a shooting at a residence on 1596 Burkhart Road in Lexington, North Carolina, left 39-year-old Billy Ray Bare dead and another man, 24-year-old Tyler Gransbury, seriously wounded. Deputies with the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office found Bare lying in the front yard; relatives reported he had been shot once in the chest. Gransbury suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center for emergency treatment; he survived and later left the state after experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms.

Investigators focused on 27-year-old Patrick Alan McCoy, who lived at the Burkhart Road property. McCoy was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in Bare’s death and attempted murder in Gransbury’s shooting; he was held without bond as the case moved forward. Family members said Bare and McCoy had spent time together earlier that day and that alcohol was involved, but the precise sequence of events and the subject of any dispute had not been conclusively established. A Rule 24 hearing concerning the possibility of capital punishment was scheduled for July 13, 2017.

Bare’s relatives remembered him as a supportive family presence and organized to cover funeral expenses while calling for accountability. Does anyone have additional information about what happened that night or knew Bare, McCoy, or Gransbury?