On January 1, 2018, 30-year-old Anthony DeSean Warren was fatally shot inside a Waffle House on Vandiver Drive in Columbia, Missouri. He was shot in the chest during a chaotic early-morning altercation around 2:00 a.m. that began when two men, Matthew McMillan and Le'quan Hord-Bush, fought; McMillan fired a gun and wounded Hord-Bush in the leg. As the men struggled over the weapon, security guard Robert Moses intervened to break up the fight and secure the firearm. A coffee pot was thrown and struck Moses, and he discharged his weapon, which struck Warren. Warren, a father of three who attended Douglass High School, was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

Prosecutors concluded Moses had been assaulted with the carafe and did not charge him. Charges were brought against McMillan under Missouri’s felony murder rule for creating the violent situation; in November 2019 a jury convicted McMillan of second-degree murder, first-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon, and armed criminal action, and he was sentenced to 30 years for the murder charge. Another man, Jaylon Freelon, pleaded guilty to tampering with physical evidence for hiding McMillan’s gun and received five months in jail. Warren’s family later reached a confidential wrongful death settlement with the security firm and the restaurant chain.

Does anyone have information about Warren’s presence at the restaurant that morning or additional details about the sequence of events inside the Waffle House?