Gerald Keith Lakey, 32, was shot dead in Lenoir, North Carolina, on May 9, 2008. Officers encountered Barney Adrian Dunlap that morning; Dunlap allegedly confessed to killing his estranged wife and her boyfriend and was found with two shotgun shells in his pocket. Investigators discovered Roslyn Fox Dunlap lying naked on the living room floor with a shotgun wound to her abdomen; she identified her husband as the shooter. Lakey was found naked in a back bedroom and was pronounced dead at the scene. Autopsies determined both victims died from single shotgun wounds.

Barney Adrian Dunlap was charged with two counts of first-degree murder; testimony at trial described the shotgun evidence and scene findings. The jury found Dunlap guilty of the killings of Gerald Keith Lakey and Roslyn Fox Dunlap, and he received life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Does anyone have information about Gerald Lakey’s life in Lenoir or knew him before May 2008?