On November 3, 2021, 28-year-old Justin Alexander King, described as Black and Filipino, was fatally shot in the mobile home park in Bourbon, Missouri where he and a neighbor lived. Authorities reported the shooter said King forced his way into the neighbor’s trailer and was acting in self-defense; surveillance footage was cited as supporting that account. The shooter, a 42-year-old white man, was taken into custody briefly and released the next day, and no criminal charges were filed.

King’s family and several neighbors disputed the home-invasion version. They said King, a father who had moved to be near his young daughter, was unarmed and wearing only pajama pants, and that witnesses heard him tell the shooter I thought we were friends as he staggered after being shot. Public outcry and requests for further review led to a coroner’s inquest in January 2022; a six-member jury ultimately ruled the killing a justifiable homicide. Does anyone have additional information or witnessed the events in Bourbon on November 3, 2021?