On May 18, 2016, Kenneth Eugene Mann, 57, was shot and killed during a violent disturbance at a home in the 9900 block of Jones Creek Road in rural Dittmer, Missouri. Mann, a United States Navy veteran who enjoyed music and working on cars, was in the house in the afternoon when a stranger arrived around 3:40 p.m. demanding the return of a 1999 Saturn. The visitors inside said they did not know the car or the person the stranger sought, and a verbal dispute turned physical.

According to authorities, the assailant produced a pistol and fired at the two men present. Mann was struck in the stomach and chest and died after being taken to a hospital; a 49-year-old homeowner was shot in the leg and survived. The Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis assisted the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested the next morning by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department was 27-year-old Jesse Wayne Murray, who was charged with second-degree murder, first-degree assault, and two counts of armed criminal action and held on a $500,000 cash-only bond.

Did anyone in the Dittmer area see or hear anything that afternoon that might help clarify what led the stranger to that address?