On March 4, 2017, 12-year-old Ayden Jeffrey Millsap was found in Cooper County, Missouri, suffering from a fatal gunshot wound. The Boone County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the head. Local law enforcement, including the Cooper County Sheriff’s Department, investigated the shooting.

Ayden was a seventh-grade student at Otterville School. His family remembered him as gentle and kind. He played summer league baseball, loved the outdoors and hunting, and enjoyed gaming and subjects like outer space and dinosaurs. He was born in Sedalia to Jeffrey Lynn Millsap and Danielle May Northern.

Does anyone from Otterville or Cooper County have information about Ayden or his case that could help explain what happened?