Michael Monroe Woods Jr., 55, of Columbia, Missouri, was found dead from a gunshot wound in the bathroom of a rest area on the eastbound side of Interstate 24 in Marion County, Tennessee. Officers responded about 6 p.m. Central on Friday, May 27, 2022, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and the Tennessee Highway Patrol opened a homicide investigation.

Investigators identified a suspect known to the victim. Law enforcement says Woods’s son, Micah E. McElmurry of Decatur, Illinois, was taken into custody the night of the killing and charged with one count of Criminal Homicide; he was booked into the Marion County Jail without bond.

If anyone has information about Michael Woods Jr., his movements that evening, or the circumstances at the rest area, please share what is known with investigators.