On the evening of May 28, 2021, deputies from the Barry County Sheriff’s Office found the body of 25-year-old Daylon Michael Anderson of Monett, Missouri, in a field near Farm Road 1078 and Farm Road 2140. Investigators determined Anderson had died from a gunshot wound and treated the scene as a homicide.

The Barry County Sheriff’s Office and the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control worked the case. Within a short period they arrested 21-year-old Dylan Rixon Williams, also of Monett. Williams was charged in Barry County Circuit Court with second-degree murder and armed criminal action and was held without bond. The sheriff’s office described the killing as a targeted incident and said there was no further threat to the community.

What additional information do readers have about Daylon Anderson or the circumstances surrounding his death?