Choya Adkins, a 40-year-old White/Caucasian man, was fatally shot on July 19, 2015, at a residence along Duncan Branch Road near Meadow Bridge, West Virginia. He and his brother, Mark Shane Adkins, had spent much of the day working on a red truck in the yard; a neighbor said they were bickering at times but also laughing. The neighbor heard one of them go into the house briefly, then return and walk around the truck, and almost immediately afterward heard a gunshot and something heavy fall into the truck bed.

Choya suffered a shotgun wound to the chest and died. Investigators found a shotgun and a spent cartridge in the bed of the truck with blood smears on the barrel, blood inside the truck and on a nearby vehicle, and numerous empty beer cans in the yard. Autopsy findings indicated the weapon discharged from about three to four feet and showed a scalloped pattern inconsistent with a self-inflicted close-range shot; gunshot residue was on Mark’s hands but not on Choya’s. Mark had facial injuries, a toxic blood-alcohol level, and his blood and DNA were found on the shotgun and inside the truck. He was charged and later convicted by a jury of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years.

Does anyone have additional observations about the forensics or the timeline around that afternoon in Meadow Bridge?