Lee David Lipps, 34, was fatally wounded by a gunshot outside a residence in the 100 block of Virginia Avenue in Pennington Gap, Virginia, on the evening of August 28, 2018. Deputies from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office responded to a shots-fired call about 7:30 p.m. and found Lipps with a gunshot injury. He was taken to Lonesome Pine Hospital in Big Stone Gap, where he was pronounced dead.

The Virginia State Police and the Lee County Sheriff’s Office jointly investigated the case. An autopsy and examination were performed by the Roanoke Medical Examiner. A 24-year-old man, Leon Smith, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and held at the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail.

Did anyone in the Pennington Gap area see or hear anything that night that could help clarify what happened?