A long-running neighbor dispute in Rocky Top, Tennessee, ended in deadly violence on the morning of November 23, 2019. David Ray Roach Jr., 43, was shot outside a residence on Willow Lane and later died at a local hospital. Reports say the argument that led to the shooting followed about a year of escalating tensions between Roach and his neighbor George Michael Patterson, then 64. Roach had reportedly complained to local police about Patterson’s behavior before the fatal confrontation.

Emergency services responded and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Rocky Top Police Department opened an investigation. George Michael Patterson was arrested and charged with criminal homicide; an Anderson County grand jury later indicted him on first-degree murder. Does anyone in Rocky Top remember the dispute or have information about what led up to the shooting?