On the evening of November 12, 2014, a dispute at a Shell gas station at 40 Highway and Blue Ridge Cutoff in Independence, Missouri, ended when 26-year-old Bobby L. Mullins II was shot and killed in the parking lot. Surveillance video captured the sequence: Shawn M. Hughes, 37, arrived in a dark-colored truck with a woman, entered the store, returned to the vehicle, then approached Mullins’ white truck and punched the driver’s side window while searching the interior. When Mullins came out of the store a short, violent confrontation followed and Hughes shot Mullins in the head. Witnesses said the shooter fled on foot and took a red backpack from Mullins’ truck; police found Mullins dead at the scene.

Hughes was later located and arrested on charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action. The woman who accompanied him was briefly detained and released without charges; she told police Hughes and Mullins knew each other, that Hughes believed Mullins had stolen something from him, and that Hughes had said he intended to get Mullins when he saw him at the station. At his initial court appearance Hughes claimed not to know the charges and made accusations of corruption against the Independence Police Department.

If anyone witnessed the confrontation at the gas station or has information about the events leading up to that night, please share what is known.