On the night of December 4, 2021, shots were fired in a Springfield, Missouri, neighborhood near South Fremont Avenue. Officers found 41-year-old Trevor J. Hale lying in front of a home at 2215 South Fremont Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Detectives linked Hale’s killing to an earlier shooting from August 18, 2021, in a parking lot on South National Avenue, where a different victim was shot and survived. Investigators say that connection identified a primary suspect. On April 4, 2022, police arrested 26-year-old Darius Adams and the Greene County Prosecutor’s Office charged him with first-degree murder in Hale’s death, first-degree assault for the August shooting, and two counts of armed criminal action; he was held without bond.

Anyone with information about either shooting is asked to contact the Springfield Police Department or detectives working the case.