On May 21, 2020, deputies and troopers responding to a house fire in the 3100 block of East 2105 Road near Hugo, Oklahoma, found 47-year-old Joe Ben Rusty Hemingway pulled from the burning residence. Emergency personnel discovered Hemingway had been shot and was already deceased before the fire consumed the home. The circumstances at the scene led investigators to treat the death as a homicide.

Authorities located a suspect nearby hiding in woods close to the property. After several hours, 27-year-old Gunnar Hemingway surrendered to OSBI agents and Choctaw County deputies and was booked into the Choctaw County Jail. He was charged with Murder in the First Degree and Arson in the First Degree; the case was later brought at the federal level with a charge of Murder in Indian Country against Gunnar Mathew Hemingway.

Are there witnesses or local readers with information about what happened at the Hugo residence on May 21, 2020 who can help clarify the sequence of events?