Clinton Allen Lovingood, 51, was shot dead at his Maples Road home in Seymour, Tennessee, on July 25, 2024. Lovingood, a White male, called 911 about a disturbance with his roommate; during that call dispatchers heard a loud noise later identified as the fatal gunshot. A second call to 911 came from the roommate, 40-year-old Robert P. Berry, who admitted to the shooting.

Deputies from the Blount County Sheriff’s Office found Berry at the residence; he surrendered peacefully. Paramedics attempted resuscitation but Lovingood was pronounced dead at the scene with a gunshot wound to the chest from a 12-gauge shotgun. His body was sent to the Knox County Regional Forensics Center. Berry was taken into custody, charged with criminal homicide, booked into the Blount County Correctional Facility on a $1 million bond, and scheduled to appear in Blount County General Sessions Court on July 31, 2024. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation assisted the ongoing probe; the motive and the disturbance’s specifics remain under investigation.

If anyone has information about Clinton Lovingood, his movements that night, or the events leading up to the disturbance, please come forward.