James Todd Mounts, 50, was fatally shot during an altercation at a Dix Fork Road residence in Sidney, Kentucky, on July 13, 2025. Kentucky State Police responded to the home of 54-year-old Clifford Triplett after the struggle; Triplett told officers he and Mounts had been fighting and that a gun he was holding discharged accidentally, killing Mounts.

Triplett was initially taken into custody and booked on a second-degree manslaughter charge without bond. He was later released after arraignment, but in September a Pike County grand jury returned an indictment upgrading the charge to murder. Authorities re-arrested Triplett and he remains held without bond on the upgraded charge, which carries a much greater potential sentence than the original manslaughter count.

Does anyone in the Sidney area have information about what led to the July 13 altercation or saw Mounts and Triplett together before that day?