A dispute among housemates in Eugene, Oregon, ended in fatal violence on the evening of July 5, 2020. Deputies from the Lane County Sheriff’s Office responded about 7:03 p.m. to a Smithoak Street residence in north Eugene after a report of a gunshot. Officers found 62-year-old Thomas Robert Michaud deceased from a gunshot wound. Two other men were at the home when deputies arrived; the three had been living together and a physical altercation over their living situation broke out shortly before the shooting. One housemate, 59-year-old Eugene resident Martin Joyce, was arrested and booked in the Lane County Jail on a murder charge. Authorities said there was no further threat to the community. An obituary for Thomas Michaud was published in the Eugene Register-Guard.

Did anyone in the community know the housemates or have information about tensions at that address?