Clinton Peckman, 58, of rural Paola, Kansas, was fatally shot in a parking lot in Blue Springs, Missouri, on a Thursday in November 2017. He had been working in Blue Springs and was getting supplies for a painting job when the encounter occurred in the Bethlehem Cafe parking lot on Northwest Woods Chapel Road; investigators described the shooting as part of an attempted carjacking.

Witnesses provided a description of the shooter that led officers to a suspect about three blocks away. After the shooting, the suspect allegedly carjacked a couple at gunpoint outside another nearby restaurant. The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office charged the suspect with second-degree murder, two counts of armed criminal action, and first-degree robbery. Reports say investigators did not believe Peckman and the suspect knew each other before the incident.

If anyone was in that area of Blue Springs that November day or has information about the events around Bethlehem Cafe, please come forward.