On December 23, 1999, 32-year-old Timothy R. Ott was shot dead in Easley, South Carolina, after a man forced entry through a living room window. The intruder, identified as 28-year-old Dallen Forrest Bounds, first shot Timothy’s ex-wife, 33-year-old Sandra Sandi Roberts Ott, in the kitchen; their 5-year-old son was found asleep and unharmed in his bedroom. Timothy ran to a neighbor’s house for help, but Bounds followed, entered that home and shot Timothy in the head, killing him.

The neighbor was later found hiding in a closet and physically unharmed. After fleeing the scene, Bounds was located at another Easley residence where he had taken two women hostage and died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound as law enforcement closed in. Subsequent investigations linked Bounds to two other 1999 murders, those of Jonathan Lemuel Lara and Karen Moore Hayden, and an accomplice in the Lara killing, Casandra Laster, was later convicted of accessory after the fact to felony murder.

What information do readers have about Timothy Ott’s life, movements that night, or contacts in Easley that could help complete the timeline?