Jerry Lacey Pulliam, 45, was found dead on December 24, 2016, after firefighters responded to a fire in a vacant house on Brooks Road in Reidsville, North Carolina. After the blaze was extinguished, his body was discovered badly burned and with an apparent gunshot wound. The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office, the Fire Marshal’s Office, and NC SBI investigators opened an investigation.

Investigators identified 50-year-old William Bartlett of Reidsville as a suspect, and Bartlett was arrested in connection with Pulliam’s homicide and being held without bail. Pulliam was born January 26, 1971, in Danville, Virginia, and is survived by his mother, Roslyn Hall Pulliam, and his children April, Josh, Ryan, Christopher, Christian, Lacey, and Kelsey. The investigation remains ongoing.

If anyone has information about Pulliam’s death or the events leading up to December 24, 2016, please contact investigators.