In the early morning hours of October 16, 2014, a disturbance at a Neshoba County mobile home ended with the death of 34-year-old Billy Scott Bishop of Carthage, Mississippi. Deputies responded after a late call and found homeowner Jonathan Earl Herrington injured and bleeding from a cut under his eye; Herrington said Bishop had entered his bedroom, attacked him, and reached for a pistol, so Herrington fired in self-defense.

The autopsy by Dr. John Davis, however, showed Bishop sustained two gunshot wounds to the back of his head and one to his chest, with the two head wounds close enough to enter through a common defect. Herrington testified he fired twice and then a final shot to the back of Bishop’s head but could not account for one of the head wounds. Herrington was indicted for deliberate-design murder; a jury convicted him of manslaughter and the Neshoba County Circuit Court sentenced him to twenty years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

Did anyone in the area witness the events at Herrington’s mobile home that night or have additional details about what led to the confrontation?