William L. Patton was 20 when he was shot in Joplin, Missouri, in the early hours of Wednesday, March 16, 2022. Joplin police were called to the area of 24th and Wall Avenue just before 2:30 a.m.; officers found Patton with gunshot wounds and he died after being taken to a nearby hospital.

Patton was a Joplin resident who had strong ties to the Pittsburg, Kansas, area where he spent much of his life. The Joplin Police Department opened a homicide investigation into the shooting.

Did anyone in Joplin or the Pittsburg area see or hear anything that night near 24th and Wall Avenue?