Less than one year ago, on Thursday June 15th, 2023 in small town Marion county a home was up in flames. Sequatchie is only home to about 600 people, but neighbors recall hearing glass breaking and loud pops around 8 pm that slow summer night and by 9 pm police were called to the scene of a house fire at the 200 block of Pine Street. As firefighters put out the blaze, investigators enter the scene and find pure horror. 3 adults were dead along with 3 children and one other man who was still alive but had suffered 3 gun shot wounds. He was later airlifted with life force to a Chattanooga hospital.

Gary and Regina were married and living together in 2020, which is when this horrible story starts. Regina had an adult daughter, Brittnee, a mother of three children. The couple had a very intense relationship, with calls from neighbors reporting them fighting, domestic violence calls and stories of abuse from friends and family. Neighbor, Noah Simmons recalls breaking up fights between Gary and Regina and remembers them going tit for tat. That same year Regina filed a domestic assault report against Gary claiming her husband had 50-60 guns. Another report from Regina says she was afraid for her life because she thought her estranged husband would get drunk and kill her. Regina then files a restraining order, in May of 2023 against Gary and a judge orders them no contact. That same time Regina’s daughter Brittnee was being proposed to on May 29th. Soon after that Brittnee’s fiancé moves in with Brittnee, her three kids and her mom.

On June 15th, 2023 Gary would arrive at Regina’s home. He would then shoot and kill Regina and Britnee and maybe one of her children. Of her three kids, at least one was found with a gun shot wound. The other two kids may have died from smoke insolation. Gary was also found with a self inflicted gun shot wound. Police believe Gary went there for revenge on his estranged wife, killing her, her daughter and her daughter’s 3 children. Aaron was a month into his new life at Regina’s house as a finance and stepdad before all of his dreams would literally come burning down around him. 

Police believe Gary lost it, drove to his wife’s house where he broke in and killed her. In his rage he ends up killing Brittnee, shooting Brittnee’s finance Aaron and killing all of her children,. Gary then decided to set the house on fire before killing himself. 

The investigation is still fresh and more information is sure to come out. We were able to talk to Aaron’s cousin AJ about the incident. AJ is an expired follower and she wants to make sure we get the information correct. We talk to AJ next…

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