A Meigs County man is behind bars on a $1 million bond in connection with a July 6 homicide on Peakland Road north of Decatur, Tennessee.
Chad Mitchell Lankford, 45, is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Jason Paul Burnette, who was found shot multiple times at a mobile home park, according to authorities. County law enforcement, the District Attorney’s Office and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation joined in the probe. The indictment was issued Nov. 24.
“He is going to hire a lawyer, but as of yesterday, no one was on record for him,” Meigs County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Brian Malone said in an email.
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Burnett, 46, was fatally shot around 3:30 p.m. at a trailer park on Peakland Road in North Meigs County, according to District Attorney L. Russell Johnson’s office. The scene is north of Highway 68, about a mile east of Watts Bar Dam.