Misty Ladawn Reynolds, 38, was fatally shot in the early morning hours of December 29, 2021, at a rural residence on County Road 503 near Bloomfield, Missouri. A Stoddard County 911 call around 4:00 a.m. captured a chaotic scene; deputies found Misty on the front porch with a critical gunshot wound to her upper left chest. She was alive when taken to SoutheastHEALTH in Dexter but was pronounced dead shortly after 5:30 a.m.

A 39-year-old man, John Clary, answered the door at the scene and was detained. Investigators say Clary gave multiple, conflicting accounts — first claiming Misty fell and shot herself, then describing a heated argument and, in one version, a struggle over a firearm that discharged after he had retrieved the gun to threaten Misty’s ex-boyfriend. Clary told authorities he had used methamphetamine that day. The pistol was a .22-caliber later traced to a theft in Scott County earlier that year. Prosecutors charged Clary with second-degree murder, felony murder, felon in possession of a firearm, and possession of a stolen firearm; he was held without bond.

Misty worked at Tyson Foods in Dexter, graduated from John 3:17 Ministries, and was survived by a son, a daughter, her mother, and extended family. Does anyone have information about Misty’s last known movements or the events at the County Road 503 residence that morning?