On the night of November 28, 2003, Sergeant Hubert Dean John John Yancey, 35, a Scott County Sheriff’s Department sergeant, was killed during a raid on a mobile home in the Williams Creek area near Oneida, Tennessee. Initial accounts said a suspect fired a weapon during the operation, but an autopsy showed the fatal bullet, which struck just above Yancey’s vest, was fired from his partner’s service weapon.

Deputy Marty Carson, the sheriff’s son and Yancey’s partner that night, first reported a suspect had shot Yancey. Carson later said he accidentally fired in the dark after hearing what he believed was a shotgun being loaded. The district attorney ruled the shooting an accident and did not file criminal charges. Yancey’s widow, Lori, pursued a federal wrongful death suit alleging Carson intentionally killed Yancey; a jury found for the estate and awarded $5 million, concluding Carson violated Yancey’s civil rights.

Carson was subsequently fired from the sheriff’s department in 2006 and later died in 2021. No criminal charges for Yancey’s death have been announced. Did anyone in the Williams Creek area that Thanksgiving weekend see or hear anything that might clarify what happened inside that trailer?