On the morning of October 29, 2018, 11-year-old Harley Jewel Rena Evans was found dead at her family’s home in Whitleyville, Tennessee, after a shooting that also left her father, Justin Evans, and his girlfriend seriously wounded. A school bus driver on North Fork Road encountered a child running toward the bus and a woman with a gunshot wound; both were taken to the Mount Vernon Fire Department for help. Deputies who responded to the residence discovered Harley deceased and transported the wounded to Vanderbilt Hospital.

Investigators identified Jacob Stanley Snyder, a man who had been staying on the property and doing work for the family, as the suspect. Snyder was arrested after attempting to evade law enforcement and charged with first-degree murder and multiple counts of attempted first-degree murder. Court filings show Snyder later pleaded guilty to premeditated first-degree murder for Harley’s death and admitted three counts of attempted murder related to the other victims, and received life plus additional years in prison.

If anyone knew the family, the man staying on their property, or saw anything on North Fork Road that morning, please come forward with information.