On the evening of September 9, 2015, 55-year-old Daniel Fenstemacher was shot to death inside his home in the Mark Twain area of Storey County near Dayton, Nevada, after what began as a domestic disturbance. Deputies who responded around 6:25 p.m. found Daniel dead from gunshot wounds and secured the residence as a crime scene; the Storey County Sheriff’s Office described the incident as a domestic disturbance turned deadly and investigators treated the death as a homicide.

Two days after the killing the coroner formally identified Daniel and confirmed death by gunfire. Authorities announced the arrest of 66-year-old William Thomas Lyle, described as a resident of the same Mark Twain home and the lone individual taken into custody in connection with the shooting.

Family accounts say Lyle fired eight times at Daniel while he was already on the ground and that a judge later ordered six months in jail which was suspended; those details do not appear in the contemporary news reports. Does anyone have reliable court or court-record information about the charges filed or how the case was resolved?