jersey- i didnt know if you had seen this
from today's Athens Daily Review
Barter found dead
By Rich Flowers News Editor
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Athens Review typically does not report on suicides. However, due to the public location of the event, and because the person involved is considered a public figure, details have been included in this report.
A longtime producer of team roping and barrel racing events, Booger Barter, was found dead near Athens, Tuesday.
Henderson County Sheriff Ray Nutt said his department received an anonymous call between 3:30 p.m. and 4 p.m., that the body of a deceased man had been seen at the Virginia Hill Church, east of Athens.
Officers went to the location and found Barter. A gun and Barter's pickup were also found at the scene. Nutt said Barter appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Precinct 6 Justice of the Peace Milton Adams conducted an inquest, and ordered the body sent to Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences for an autopsy.