On September 12, 2023, 38-year-old Shysti Renea Mayberry of Cocke County was fatally shot while a passenger in a vehicle on Moores Gap Road in Anderson County. According to law enforcement, Jason Robert Dockery, 44, was driving with Mayberry and her 21-month-old child in the car when he produced a 9mm handgun and shot Mayberry. She was struck six times as she tried to flee the vehicle and fell on the roadside; Dockery then left the scene with the child and later dropped the child unharmed on a porch in Union County.

A multi-agency manhunt across several East Tennessee counties and into Lee County, Virginia, ended on September 14, 2023, when a citizen spotted Dockery walking along Maynardville Highway and officers arrested him in Union County; he was reportedly carrying a 9mm handgun at the time. Dockery was charged with first-degree murder; a judge set bond at $2 million, and court documents say he confessed to the killing. He also faced additional pending charges in Sevier and Claiborne counties, including felony evading, reckless endangerment, violation of probation, and child abuse and neglect.

Does anyone in the area have information about Mayberry, the vehicle, or movements on Moores Gap Road that day?