Roy E. Hooch Combs, 25, was fatally shot on his birthday, May 13, 2015, at a rock quarry in Clark County, Kentucky. The shooting followed an alleged dispute between Combs’ cousin, Billy Combs, and an associate of the eventual perpetrator. That confrontation reportedly prompted a plan of retaliation led by 48-year-old Kirk Garrett of Richmond, Kentucky.

Garrett and three accomplices — Don Attaway, Kristi Mattingly, and Christopher Coleman — allegedly lured Roy and Billy Combs to the secluded quarry under the pretense of a drug deal. Garrett is described as leading the cousins to an isolated area, where he shot Roy in the face at point-blank range. Billy Combs was also shot but escaped and called for help.

All four involved were arrested and later pleaded guilty: Garrett to murder and second-degree assault and the others to facilitation to commit murder and attempted murder. Garrett received a 20-year sentence; Attaway, Coleman, and Mattingly received 15, 17, and 18 years respectively.