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Man pleads guilty in 2017 Clinton Walmart murder

A judge sentenced Robert Myers to serve back-to-back sentences totaling 27 years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to shooting and killing his ex-wife's husband in a Clinton Walmart parking lot in 2017.

The Anderson County man accused of shooting and killing his ex-wife's husband in a Clinton Walmart parking lot in 2017 has pleaded guilty.

33-year-old Robert Keith Myers pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Marshall Pinsley and attempted second-degree murder and kidnapping of another woman, Brandy Moneymaker.

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Myers plead was heard at the Criminal Court in Clinton and a judge sentenced him to back-to-back 15-year and 12-year sentences in prison for an effective 27 years behind bars without the possibility of parole.

The incident happened on April 28, 2017. Pinsely was married to Myer's ex-wife and the two had an ongoing disagreement over child visitation.

On that afternoon, authorities responded to a shooting call at the Clinton Walmart, located at 150 Tanner Lane. When they arrived, police found Pinsly, 23, dead in front of the store's lawn and garden entrance.

According to authorities, Pinsly approached Myers' vehicle in the Walmart parking lot and Myers fatally shot him.

On Feb. 8, Brandy Moneymaker was found on New River Highway in rural Anderson County. She had cuts, broken bones, and a brain injury, according to a release form District Attorney General Dave Clark.

She claimed that Myers had beat her at his home on Airbase Road in the Briceville Community of Anderson County, where he lived with Tommy Dearing.

She told investigators that after Myers beat her, she was taken by gunpoint to a "remote mountain mining area where she was forced out of the truck by Mr. Myers; shot at and left for dead on a mountain side."

When she was found, Moneymaker was taken to UT Medical Center where doctors performed emergency surgery.

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