Obie Harmon, 51, male, was killed on September 4, 1971, during a Basore family gathering in the Ozark Mountains of northwestern Arkansas, a case long associated with Fayetteville. Accounts describe a late-summer reunion at the Basore family home near Mount Olive that dissolved into terror when shots rang out. By the time the gunfire stopped, Harmon lay dead alongside members of his in-laws’ family, and the shooter’s body was found on the front steps. Contemporary reports named the dead as Ge
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