On Saturday, the man was attending his son's youth football game at Overton High School, during which he began arguing with the mother of his children, from whom he is estranged. The mother's new beau was also at the game and the argument eventually grew into a larger fracas, with the groups eventually separated.

Eventually, the children's mother, the new boyfriend and the son and the daughter left the game, traveling with the mother's cousin and another juvenile. While driving down Franklin Pike, the mother told police she saw her ex following and trying to hit her car.