On July 18, 2021, 28-year-old Lance Michael Lyman was shot and killed at a riverside gathering at the end of Clearview Drive near the Osage River in Warsaw, Missouri. Witnesses say the party had been going through the night and around 5:00 a.m. a disturbance began. When Lyman intervened as a man later identified as John M. Moreno was assaulting a woman, Moreno allegedly produced a small-caliber handgun and opened fire. Lyman was struck, managed to get into the back of a fleeing pickup and urged the driver to get him help, but died at the Warsaw Ambulance Base before he could be airlifted to a hospital.

The Benton County Sheriff’s Office and the Missouri State Highway Patrol opened a homicide investigation. Officers and a SWAT team later contained a standoff at a Benton County residence where Moreno had barricaded himself; he surrendered and was taken into custody. Prosecutors charged Moreno with second-degree murder, first-degree assault and two counts of armed criminal action. Lyman, a native of Independence, Missouri, was remembered as a devoted father to his daughter Olivia who enjoyed fishing, football and the outdoors. Does anyone who attended that gathering or knows more about the events that morning have information to share?