Do you know who murdered Roger Kelly in 2000 On the cold evening of January 9, 2000, a 50-year-old Caucasian male truck driver named Roger Kelly was in Fernley, Nevada, on a stopover from his home in Oregon. He was working as a company driver for Scott Transportation and was scheduled to deliver a load of building materials the next day. Shortly after 9 p.m., Kelly parked his Kenworth truck in a dirt lot next to the Best Western hotel.
It was there, under the vast Nevada sky, that a single gunshot shattered the night's stillness, tragically ending his life. Roger Kelly was found deceased near the hood of his truck from a single gunshot wound to the chest.
The subsequent investigation by the Lyon County Sheriff's Office determined that Kelly had been outside his vehicle, working on the engine with a flashlight, when he was approached by his killer. The moments leading up to the fatal shot remain a mystery, as it is unknown if any words were exchanged. The assailant fled the scene after the shooting, leaving the murder weapon behind. The firearm was described as a crudely manufactured and modified long gun with a handgun grip. Despite extensive forensic examination of the weapon by labs, including the FBI, no usable DNA or fingerprints were recovered to identify the person responsible.
In the years that have followed, Roger Kelly's murder has remained an unsolved cold case. Investigators pursued various leads, including a report that Kelly had been involved in a dispute at a fueling station in Wells, Nevada, earlier on the day he was killed, where he had won a few hundred dollars playing video poker. This led to speculation that he might have been followed and that robbery was a possible motive, though this has never been confirmed. Witnesses at the scene in Fernley described seeing a suspicious individual in the vicinity around the time of the murder. This person of interest was described as a white male in his late 20s or early 30s, between 5 feet 7 and 5 feet 11 inches tall, and weighing between 135 and 155 pounds. To this day, no arrests have been made, and no suspect has been officially named in the death of Roger Kelly.
