Gene Ward Jr., a 61-year-old man, was found dead inside his home in Helena, Alabama, on the evening of April 27, 2015, after a relative went to check on him and made the grim discovery. Deputies were called to the 2500 block of Highway 93 around 8 p.m., where they found him deceased with apparent gunshot wounds, turning what should have been an ordinary visit into the start of a homicide investigation in rural Shelby County.
As detectives began sorting through what happened inside the ho
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