On the evening of October 23, 2017, officers in El Dorado Springs, Missouri, responded to a distress call at South Summer and East Joe Davis Streets and found 34-year-old Brandon Keith lying partially in the roadway with a severe gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to Cedar County Memorial Hospital, then transferred to Mercy Hospital in Springfield, and died of his injuries on October 24, 2017.

The El Dorado Springs Police Department, with assistance from the Missouri State Highway Patrol and local sheriff’s offices, identified a suspect. Charles Shane Green was arrested on unrelated charges during the investigation and later was charged in March 2018 by the Cedar County Prosecutor’s Office with first-degree murder in connection with Keith’s death. In late 2021 Green entered an Alford plea to a reduced charge of second-degree murder and was sentenced in November 2021 to 20 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections.

If anyone knew Brandon Keith or has information about the events of October 23–24, 2017, please come forward.