John Wesley Stuart, 53, was found dead at his home on Newman Road in Poplarville, Mississippi, on September 5, 2017, after suffering multiple gunshot wounds. Deputies from the Pearl River County Sheriff’s Department located his body after a family member requested a welfare check. Family remembered him as outgoing and generous; he liked catfishing, quail hunting, Civil War history and Stuart genealogy, and had worked in the casino industry before farming cattle on his Poplarville property.

Investigators focused on a family member early in the inquiry. His older brother, Steven Eric Stuart, 60, was arrested the night John’s body was found on a murder charge. In April 2019 Steven Stuart pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to the maximum 20 years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

Did anyone in the Poplarville area know John or his family and have details about their relationship or what led to the altercation?