A fatal shooting took place inside an apartment at Kings Crossing Apartments on East Northfield Boulevard in Murfreesboro on July 22, 2015. Responding officers found 40-year-old Jesse Sliepenbeek, a resident of Lascassas, with a gunshot wound. He was taken to Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital and was pronounced dead; he would have turned 41 the following week.

Detectives arrested 59-year-old Dewey Abbott III, who lived in the same apartment where the shooting occurred. Abbott was charged with first-degree murder; at trial he acknowledged shooting Sliepenbeek but said he acted in self-defense. On December 9, 2016, a jury convicted Abbott of the lesser offense of second-degree murder and he received a 15-year prison sentence.

Abbott later pursued post-conviction relief alleging ineffective counsel, including that potential witnesses and evidence of an attempted 911 call were not presented. The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals denied the appeal in May 2021, and the Tennessee Supreme Court affirmed that denial in June 2022. Does anyone have information about Sliepenbeek’s life in Lascassas or the events that led to the confrontation?