On the evening of Sunday, May 7, 2023, 34-year-old Devin Paul Stiles was found inside a residence on Stony Point Road in Hanover Township with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies were called after a woman reported that her friend had been shot. What an obituary first called a sudden passing was later classified as a homicide.

A 55-year-old man named Paul Stiles was arrested at the scene and charged the next day with open murder, a charge that carries the possibility of life in prison. The obituary lists an uncle named Paul Stiles, indicating a likely familial connection between the victim and the person charged.

Devin was a 2007 graduate of Western High School and is remembered as a hardworking man and devoted father to his young daughter, Maya. Does anyone have information about Devin, his family, or what happened that night?