Mike Jones, 58, of Flatgap, Kentucky, was found dead on the evening of August 27, 2018, in the yard of a home on Dixon Branch Road in the Volga community of Johnson County. A 911 call around 7:50–8:00 p.m. reported a possible shooting. Troopers from Kentucky State Police Post 9 and Johnson County deputies found Jones lying in a driveway and the Johnson County coroner pronounced him dead at the scene; investigators described an apparent gunshot wound and sent the body to the state medical examiner’s office for autopsy.

Within about two days investigators identified a suspect and obtained an arrest warrant for 50-year-old Flatgap resident Walter Lee Curtis. Troopers publicly named Curtis and urged residents to report sightings. After about a week of searches in the hills and back roads, Curtis contacted the Johnson County jailer and surrendered on September 7, 2018; he was taken into custody, lodged at the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center, and arraigned on a murder charge. Reports do not provide a final trial outcome or sentence.

Did anyone in the Flatgap or Volga area have information about Jones’s movements on August 27, 2018, or about contacts between Jones and Curtis that evening?