POLICE

n Friendsville, Tennessee, on August 25, 2023, a distressing domestic incident led to a tragic conclusion. Jeffrey Scott West, 68, engaged in a heated argument with his partner’s son, Kyle W. Spitze, 24. The confrontation, captured on video, shows West firing a pistol at Spitze, striking him in the ear. Spitze’s mother attempted to intervene during the altercation. Following the shooting, West barricaded himself in the home, resulting in a two-and-a-half-hour standoff with police. The standoff ended with West dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Update:

On Sunday, Spitze’s mother, Melanie Spitze, was found dead in a hotel room—as first reported on Twitter by the online researcher “Bx.”Headline USA reviewed the graphic video described in Bx’s tweet, and it indeed shows a woman prone on the floor, hair covering her face, with blood-soaked sheets on the bed nearby.“I just woke up and there’s blood everywhere, and mom won’t breath, and I’m fucking scared. Mom … Mom, please wake up, please,” Kyle can be heard saying in the video, which Headline USA isn’t sharing out of respect for Melanie. “This is so traumatizing.”Later, Kyle can be heard giving his social security number to a law enforcement officer. That social security number matches the number for Kyle on a doxing website—which indicates that it’s really him in the video. The arm seen in the video also has the same bracelet Kyle wears in other photos.