On December 27, 2015, Paul Gregory Hayward II, 32, known to family as JR, was found shot to death near Highway 230 in Hickman County, Tennessee. His car was located the next day abandoned at a bar in Columbia. Investigators concluded he was the intended victim of a planned robbery.

Hayward was a father of two, an electrician and foreman at General Motors, and an avid basketball player remembered for a ready smile. A family tip led the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to four suspects in 2019. On February 5, 2020, a Hickman County grand jury indicted Lyndsey Barnes, Jamie Swarthout, Mustafa Slater, and Tramell Sparkman on charges including first-degree murder, attempted robbery, aggravated kidnapping, and robbery conspiracy; Slater and Sparkman faced additional weapons counts. At indictment Barnes was held in the Hickman County Jail; the others were incarcerated elsewhere on unrelated charges.

Does anyone have information about Hayward’s movements in late December 2015 or saw his car near Columbia around December 28?