Troy Cobb, a 20-year-old White man, was killed on October 28, 2014, inside the Bancroft, West Virginia, mobile home he shared with roommate Jacob Smailes. Emergency dispatchers received a 911 call about 3:15 p.m. that day; Smailes told dispatchers the shooting had been accidental. A neighbor who arrived heard someone say he had accidentally shot his roommate and found Cobb gravely wounded with an injury described around his eye.

Deputies later learned Cobb and Smailes had been arguing before the gunfire. Investigators say an eyewitness inside the trailer described the argument escalating until Smailes was holding a gun to Cobb’s head, followed by the fatal shot. Deputies arrested Smailes and charged him with first-degree murder; prosecutors alleged Smailes shot and killed Cobb after the argument. Smailes maintained the shooting was not intentional.

At trial jurors rejected first-degree murder but convicted Smailes of voluntary manslaughter; he received a 15-year sentence. Does anyone have information about the argument that led to the shooting or memories of the day at Old Ferry Trailer Park?