Lucas Coons was 22 when he died in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on the eve of Thanksgiving 2014. A Chambersburg Area Senior High School graduate who worked as a welder at Letterkenny Army Depot, Coons went to buy oxycodone on November 25, 2014, and tried to pay with counterfeit money. An argument in the basement of the seller’s home ended when the seller, identified as Barton P. Jones, produced a loaded gun and shot Coons.

Coons’ body was found the next morning, November 26, 2014, in the passenger seat of his own vehicle abandoned near a local restaurant. Investigators charged 56-year-old Barton P. Jones with criminal homicide, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with evidence; Jones’ 21-year-old son, Patrick Leroy Barton Holden, was charged with helping move the body and with abuse of a corpse and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.

Jones was tried and convicted on third-degree murder and multiple related counts; his conviction for third-degree murder was later upheld on appeal. Holden was convicted of abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence. Does anyone in Chambersburg remember Lucas or have information about the events of that Thanksgiving weekend?