Billy Nicely, 60, was shot and killed on the evening of Friday, June 19, 2026, at the Williams Creek Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency access at Lays Bridge in Washburn, Tennessee. According to reports, a large group was in the parking lot when Nicely got into a verbal argument with another person that escalated; the other person then shot Nicely.

After the shooting the suspect fled the scene in a Honda Civic accompanied by another person. Law enforcement, including the Grainger County Sheriff’s Department and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, located and secured that vehicle and opened a homicide investigation.

What details about the argument or the people present could help explain how this confrontation became deadly? If anyone was at Williams Creek that night or has information, please share what is known with investigators.