In the early morning of January 8, 2024, 21-year-old Matthew D. Jones of Reagan was fatally shot on Presley Road in Lexington, Tennessee. Special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation at the request of 26th Judicial District Attorney General Jody Pickens.

Evidence developed by investigators identified two men, Lee A. Weatherford of Jackson and D’Angelo D. Hart of Lexington, as responsible for Jones’s death. A search warrant was executed at a Reed Road residence; one person there was arrested on unrelated charges while the search for Weatherford and Hart continued. The two suspects were located the next morning at a home on Eldad Road in Trenton after a multi-agency manhunt and an hours-long standoff, and both were taken into custody and booked into the Henderson County Jail. They face charges including First Degree Murder, Felony First Degree Murder in Perpetration of Theft, Felon in Possession of a Firearm, and Theft of Property, and are being held without bond.

Anyone with information about Matthew Jones or the events on Presley Road is asked to come forward.