Randall Dewey Burnette Jr.A joint investigation by Special Agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the Meigs County Sheriff’s Department, and the 9th Judicial District Attorney General’s Office has resulted in the arrest of a Decatur, Tennessee, man on a homicide charge.
Randall Dewey Burnette Jr., 41, an acquaintance of the victim, Michael Lee Joyner, 40, was charged Tuesday with one count of second-degree murder and booked into the Meigs County Jail on a $5 million bond, according to a news release from the TBI.
Joyner was found dead on Dec. 15 at a home on Warren Lane in Decatur, and investigators initially believed he had died from a gunshot wound. An autopsy later determined the cause of death to be a stab wound.
During the course of their investigation, agents developed information pointing to Burnette as the individual responsible for Joyner’s death, the release states.