A long-running dispute between a landlord and tenant in Munford, Tennessee, ended in deadly violence on the night of February 27, 2021. Joseph Joey Benjamin Guy, 48, was shot and killed at a residence on Gin House Lake Road that Guy owned. Deputies arrived around 9:53 p.m. after a call about a home invasion and found Guy deceased from an apparent gunshot wound.

Initial accounts from the Tipton County Sheriff’s Office described a home invasion in which the resident shot an assailant. Guy’s family disputed that version, saying Guy had a key and was entering to check the property, and they called the shooting a premeditated murder. The shooter’s son said his father, tenant Donald Raye Jones, acted in self-defense and had a right to be in the home; others described conflicting tenancy and trespass claims. Investigators collected evidence and planned to forward findings to the District Attorney General’s office; no arrest or charge had been announced at that time.

Did anyone in Munford know more about the dispute between Guy and Jones or about who had access to that house?