Darren Reid Sarvis, a 58-year-old Navy veteran and mechanic from Shelby, North Carolina, died on February 20, 2017 after a violent altercation at his shop behind his home. Officers were called to the scene on February 21, 2017 and found him face down in a pool of blood with several bloodied rags nearby, indicating someone had tried to clean the scene. An autopsy showed a bullet entered the back of his head and exited the right side of his face.

Investigators questioned Darren’s son, Kelly Reid Sarvis. After initially saying he and his father had worked in the shop and that he found his father unresponsive the next morning, Kelly confessed during an interview that he shot his father with a 9 mm handgun following a physical altercation on the afternoon of February 20, 2017. Kelly, then 21, was charged with first-degree murder. Authorities say he removed the 9 mm and a 12-gauge shotgun to a friend’s house; that friend, Trevor Flores, was charged with obstruction and accessory after the fact.

Kelly later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon, larceny, and obtaining property by false pretenses and received a 35 to 45 year sentence, beginning July 24, 2019. Does anyone have information about the events at the shop or knew Darren and his family that could shed light on what led to the altercation?