Jeffery Kendall Barton, a 58-year-old White man from Decatur, Tennessee, was found with an apparent gunshot wound at a residence in the 400 block of Shiloh Road on a Saturday evening in early April 2026. He was transported to a local hospital and pronounced dead there.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Meigs County Sheriff’s Office opened a joint investigation. Agents identified Tyler Steven Meadows as a suspect, obtained an arrest warrant by the following Sunday morning, and booked Meadows into the Meigs County Jail. Meadows has been charged with second-degree murder; no motive has been released.

Anyone who was in the area of Shiloh Road that Saturday evening or who has information about Barton’s movements or contacts is asked to come forward. What did readers see or hear that night?