Jason Eric Masters, 49, was shot in daylight on August 13, 2021, while seated inside a truck in the parking lot of a Conoco Village Mart at 2720 West Kearney Street in Springfield, Missouri. Emergency crews took him to a hospital but he died of his injuries. Masters was originally from Van Wert, Ohio, and family remembered him as a master fisherman who loved the outdoors with his father.

Springfield detectives focused on two suspects who fled the scene in a silver Pontiac. Investigators say the men were also involved in a robbery near North Glenstone Avenue shortly after the shooting and that the motive was a dispute over money Masters allegedly owed. Both men were arrested and charged in connection with the shooting and the related robbery.

One defendant, Cody Westmoreland, pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery under a deal that included dismissal of a murder charge and received ten years in prison. Garrett Eagle pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and first-degree robbery and was sentenced to thirty years. Did anyone know Jason or see activity around the Conoco Village Mart that afternoon?