Okey Meadows Jr. was 26 and a resident of the Campbells Creek area when he was killed on August 14, 2003. Late that night he stopped at a Go-Mart on U.S. Route 60 in Cedar Grove to buy milk; as he stood near the store’s security/pay window a single rifle shot struck him in the neck. Investigators estimated the shot came from about 60 to 70 yards away, and ballistics later tied the same .22-caliber rifle to the killing of Jeanie Patton roughly 90 minutes earlier. The three sniper-style deaths that summer also included Gary Carrier Jr., who had been shot four days earlier; authorities treated all three as connected and pursued many leads, tips and a reward that rose to $100,000.

Witnesses near the Cedar Grove Go-Mart reported a dark two-tone Ford F-150 extended cab behaving suspiciously in the lot before Meadows was shot and then speeding away. Investigators said the shootings initially appeared random but soon considered that Patton and Meadows may have been deliberately targeted and explored possible links to drug activity. A major arrest was made in 2011 and an indictment followed in 2011–2012, but the killings remained the focus of extensive investigation.

Did anyone in the Campbells Creek or Cedar Grove area at the time notice a dark two-tone pickup or other unusual activity that night?