Christopher Lynn McBath was 26 when he was fatally shot on the porch of a home on Better Tomorrow Drive in the Western Heights neighborhood of Knoxville, Tennessee, on the evening of September 15, 2009. McBath was a father of four and is described by family as kind and loving; his mother said the killing destroyed the family and that this was the second son she had lost to violence.

Investigators focused on three people: Monica Wright Jones, her cousin Shawn Louis Payne, and Trent Lamark Barton Jr. Authorities say Jones believed, mistakenly, that McBath had given information to police that led to a drug arrest and that she orchestrated an attack. Payne and Barton were charged with second-degree murder; Jones was charged with facilitation of first-degree murder. Payne was arrested in October 2009 after a traffic stop matching a vehicle description. In April 2012 Jones accepted a plea and was sentenced to 15 years; Payne and Barton pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received lengthy sentences.

McBath’s family has voiced that the sentences did not match their loss. Does anyone have memories of Christopher or information about the case to share?