On November 20, 2020, officers in Springfield, Missouri, responded to a shooting at the Motel 6 on North Glenstone Avenue and found 37-year-old Billy Gene Glass III dead outside one of the rooms from fatal gunshot wounds. Detectives opened a homicide investigation, secured the scene and interviewed witnesses.

Authorities later arrested a man and charged him with second-degree murder in connection with Glass’s death, and legal proceedings against the accused began. Friends and family remembered Glass as a loving, easy-going industrial painter; they held vigils and lit candles in his memory. There are limited public details about the motive beyond an altercation at the motel.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or knew Glass, please share what you can with investigators.