On the afternoon of August 24, 2020, deputies responded to the 3300 block of Highway 227 in Trail, Oregon, and found 25-year-old Steven Garrett Sutton dead of a gunshot wound. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office activated its Major Assault and Death Investigation Unit and investigators from Ashland, Medford, and Central Point assisted, with support from the Oregon State Crime Lab and the Jackson County District Attorney’s Office.

On January 15, 2021, authorities arrested Tommy Ray Ormsby, identified in reports as Sutton’s uncle and a Trail resident. Ormsby was booked into the Jackson County Jail on charges including Murder in the Second Degree, Manslaughter in the Second Degree, and Criminally Negligent Homicide, with bail set at $1,000,000.

If anyone has information about Steven Sutton or the events of August 24, 2020, please come forward.