Clinton Mullins, a 46-year-old White man from Garland, West Virginia, was killed during the night of October 18 into the early morning of October 19, 2014, in McDowell County. His body was found alongside Brandon Church inside a pickup truck that had been set on fire near the Long Pole Creek area close to Panther. Investigators determined both men had been shot before the vehicle was burned; medical testimony said Mullins was struck twice in the chest and died from those gunshot wounds.

Witness testimony at later proceedings traced the evening to a meeting at convenience stores and drinking at Orchard Branch with a group that included Donald Sidney Bailey, Bailey’s wife Sheila, Troy Justice, April Justice and two teenage stepdaughters. Testimony described Bailey walking toward the pickup with a gun and firing into the vehicle. After the shooting the group returned with gasoline and the truck was ignited. Bailey was tried and convicted of first-degree murder, third-degree arson and conspiracy and sentenced to life without parole for the murders.

Does anyone have further information about Mullins’s life in Garland or who might have known him that night?