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Jacob Sklyer Stowers, 25, was shot and killed on June 21, 2018, at a residence on NW Venetian Drive in Houston Lake, Platte County, Missouri. The shooting followed an argument with 28-year-old Coty Borst of Shawnee, Kansas. Stowers was unarmed; he was taken to North Kansas City Hospital and pronounced dead shortly before midnight.

Borst fled after the shooting but was found hiding in a creek bed about 100 yards from the house after a search that used a police helicopter and a K-9 unit. He initially resisted and threatened the police dog with his handgun before surrendering. Investigators recovered a single shell casing at the scene and found no weapon that belonged to Stowers. Borst gave conflicting statements, at one point claiming self-defense and saying Stowers had shot at him first; evidence presented in court did not support that claim.

Borst was charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action, and a jury found him guilty. He later received a 45-year sentence. Did anyone know Jacob or have information about the events that night?