John Marshall John-John Kyle was 29 when he was shot dead in Knoxville, Tennessee, on the afternoon of January 4, 2016. Authorities described the shooting as arising from a dispute over a drug debt.

Investigators identified 29-year-old Ricky Allen Davis Jr. as the primary suspect. After his identity circulated, Davis surrendered to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office and was charged with first-degree murder and unlawful possession of a weapon in connection with Kyle’s death. At a February 2018 trial a jury convicted Davis of both charges, and the court imposed a mandatory life sentence for the murder.

An appeal was filed on Davis’s behalf and was later decided in 2021. If anyone knew John Kyle, his whereabouts before that January afternoon, or has information about the dispute that led to his death, please share what is known.