Travis Dean Harold, 35, of Hiddenite, North Carolina, was shot and killed on April 11, 2016, in the driveway of Jason Dean Clary’s home.

Prosecutors introduced cell phone text messages from Clary that they described as threatening and relied on a video of the fatal shooting recorded by Clary’s girlfriend Brittany Gilbert. The first trial in September 2018 ended in a mistrial when jurors deadlocked after three days of deliberations. At a retrial in March 2019 the defense did not call witnesses, argued self-defense under North Carolina’s Stand Your Ground law, and the jury found Clary not guilty of first-degree murder.