On the morning of February 3, 2020, police in Joplin, Missouri, responded to a distress call about a burglary in progress with shots fired at a house on South Roosevelt Avenue. Inside, two people had been shot. Thirty-six-year-old Gregory Coble, a White male who was not a resident but an acquaintance of someone who lived there, was found critically injured and later died of a single gunshot wound to his torso.

A female resident, Rebekkah Gage, was also shot and survived after treatment at a local hospital. Children were in the home during the incident but were not physically harmed. Authorities described the event as a targeted burglary rather than a random attack and recovered forensic evidence, but investigators had difficulty identifying those responsible.

No suspects had been publicly named or arrested and no charges had been filed as detectives continued to seek information. If anyone has information about who carried out the break-in or the shooting, please share what is known with investigators.