On December 22, 2020, officers in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, responded to a shooting in the 800 block of Valley Street and found 30-year-old Tanika LeAnn Trice unresponsive in a driveway. Emergency personnel pronounced her dead at the scene and detectives opened an investigation into how she came to be struck by gunfire.

Investigators interviewed 44-year-old Gregory Richie, a resident of the home. Richie told police Trice had entered his bedroom with an unidentified armed male who demanded his possessions, that the male took a television and fled, and that Richie retrieved a firearm and fired multiple shots at the fleeing person. Richie was arrested at the scene and booked on a $50,000 cash or surety bond. Prosecutors charged him with unlawful possession of a firearm and tampering with physical evidence; those counts relate to his possession of the weapon despite prior felony convictions and alleged actions with evidence at the scene. The investigation remained focused on corroborating the alleged robbery and the sequence of events that led to Trice being fatally shot.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or about the unidentified male described by Richie, please share what is known.