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On the afternoon of November 19, 2023, officers responded to a report of a shooting at a residence on 1196 Henry Griffin Road in Appling County and found 72-year-old Jonathan Terry Hayes, a White male and former security guard at the Georgia National Fairgrounds, dead from a gunshot wound. Arrival was about 1:14 p.m.

Investigators identified a person of interest and, a short distance from the scene, took 37-year-old Steven Lee of Baxley into custody. Lee was later charged by the Appling County Sheriff’s Office with murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. Colleagues at the fairgrounds expressed sorrow over Hayes’s sudden death.

What information might help reconstruct Hayes’s movements earlier that day or explain the circumstances that led to the shooting?