On a summer afternoon in Vonore, Tennessee, the life of 32-year-old Dustin Cody Long was brought to a sudden and violent end. On July 7, 2018, Long was shot and killed at his residence on Highway 360. The man identified as the shooter was 21-year-old McKenzie Blair, who was described as a longtime friend of Long.
Immediately following the shooting, which occurred around 3:00 p.m., Blair fled the scene in Long's vehicle, heading south to Alabama.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office was initially alerted to a related incident involving an alleged assault by Blair on a woman in her seventies with whom he had been living, just a short distance from Long's home. It was in the course of investigating this assault that deputies discovered Long's body later that evening, close to 8:00 p.m.
The search for Blair ended in the early morning hours of the following day when he was apprehended by the Madison County Sheriff's Department in Alabama, just after 4:00 a.m. Following his arrest, Blair was held in Alabama, with initial charges of domestic assault and additional charges pending his extradition back to Tennessee to face questioning in connection with the death of Dustin Cody Long. The Monroe County Sheriff, at the time, expressed that the motive for the shooting was unclear and that there had been no known animosity between the two friends.
Despite the initial reports of McKenzie Blair's arrest and the pending charges for the shooting of Dustin Cody Long, there is no publicly available information from online sources detailing the outcome of any subsequent legal proceedings. Information regarding a trial, conviction, or sentencing for McKenzie Blair in relation to this case could not be found.
