Mickey Dewayne Tuggle, a 48-year-old White man from Nashville, Georgia, was shot and killed on March 17, 2026, in Berrien County. Initial reports linked the shooting to a possible road-rage incident, but the family says that description is misleading. According to the daughter, a woman followed Tuggle’s minor daughter home. Tuggle went outside to read the vehicle’s tag, not knowing who was inside, and was then shot and killed.

The family emphasizes that Tuggle was acting as a parent protecting and trying to help his frightened child, not as an aggressor in a traffic dispute. The killing reportedly began after the minor daughter was followed home and ended with Tuggle fatally wounded while attempting to identify the vehicle. No confirmed arrest, suspect, charges, trial, or conviction has been reported; the matter is being handled as a death investigation.

Did anyone in Berrien County see a vehicle near the family’s home on March 17, 2026, or have information about who might have been involved?