On Christmas Eve 2019, Frank Hollis Privett, 71, and his wife Rita Ann Privett, 63, were found dead in their Addison, Alabama, home from gunshot wounds inflicted by a 12-gauge pump shotgun recovered in the kitchen. The couple’s injuries were described as the result of a violent altercation that ended their lives.

Frank Privett, born April 10, 1948, was a U.S. Air Force veteran who served from 1966 to 1978 and was active in the community; Rita Privett was a retired teacher who had worked at Jones Chapel Jr. High and Logan Jr. High. Their 30-year-old son, Allen Hollis Privett, called the sheriff’s dispatcher at 6:10 p.m. and confessed to shooting his parents. Officers found him in the yard, on the phone with the dispatcher, with his hands raised; he was taken into custody without incident and charged with their murders, then held without bond.

Funeral services were held December 28, 2019, at Nichols Funeral Home in Addison. Does anyone in the community have information about the events that led up to that evening?