On August 6, 2018, a shooting inside a vehicle in the 1000 block of Henry Street, just north of downtown Saint Joseph, Missouri, left one man dead and another critically injured. Officers called to what initially appeared to be a crash found two people inside the wrecked car who had been shot. Mack D. Jenkins, 29, suffered fatal wounds and died; the other occupant, 23-year-old Deon Hernandez, survived but was left paralyzed.

Witnesses reported a gunman fired into the vehicle and fled, and investigators treated the incident as a targeted attack. Police identified and arrested St. Joseph resident Jessie Lee Nelson as the suspect and charged him with first-degree murder in Jenkins’ death, first-degree assault for Hernandez’s injuries, and armed criminal action. A court-ordered mental evaluation found Nelson competent to stand trial, and he pleaded not guilty.

Does anyone have information about the shooting that could help clarify what happened before the vehicle was struck?