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Katie Nicole Key

Case from Afton, TN dated Jan 16, 2007

Victim Details

Katie Nicole Key

Female

White / Caucasian

Afton

TN

2007-01-16

17

Katie

Nicole Key

07/13/2026

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In the quiet town of Afton, Tennessee, the life of 17-year-old Katie Nicole Key was tragically cut short in a harrowing murder-suicide. The devastating events unfolded on a Monday night when 29-year-old Jason Lynn McCamey of Morristown forcibly entered the Key residence by firing a shotgun through a sliding glass door.

Once inside, McCamey took the high school senior hostage, barricading himself and the young woman in a second-floor bedroom. The bedroom doors were ominously secured from t ...
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