A routine crash response on December 11, 2021, in the Danville area of Boone County, West Virginia, led deputies to a violent family homicide. Deputies arriving at a wreck on U.S. 119 encountered 42-year-old Jeremy Scott Bennett, who told them he had just murdered his father. Investigators then went to a residence on Arden Lane and found 71-year-old Ray Harold Bennett dead of two gunshot wounds outside the home.

Authorities say Jeremy Scott Bennett confessed, took items from Ray Bennett’s wallet and car keys after the shooting, and was arrested and held without bond at the Southwestern Regional Jail on a charge of first-degree murder. Publicly reported materials from the initial investigation do not set out a clear motive.

Did anyone in the Danville area know Ray or his family and see anything that day or in the days before the killing?