On April 21, 2022, two households in Mountain View, Arkansas, were found the scene of a violent double homicide. Fifty-five-year-old Army veteran James Cecil Watters and his 77-year-old mother, Shirley Gail Watters, were discovered inside their Northcutt Road home, both having been fatally shot.

About a quarter-mile away, William Clinton Trammell, 75, and his wife Sharon Trammell, 72, were also found shot to death in their residence. The proximity of the two crime scenes and the multiple victims alarmed the small Stone County community and prompted an investigation by local authorities and the Arkansas State Police.

Investigators identified Donnie Lee Trammell, a 54-year-old neighbor and son of William and Sharon Trammell, as a person of interest and took him into custody on unrelated probation violations the day after the bodies were found. He was later charged in connection with the four deaths along with related offenses.

If anyone in Mountain View at the time has information about the victims, the neighborhood, or events on April 20–21, please come forward.