On the morning of November 15, 2014, police responded to a report of multiple injured people at the Economy Inn on North Glenstone Avenue in Springfield, Missouri. Officers found four people who had been shot; three were pronounced dead at the scene. Christopher Freeman, a 24-year-old White male, was critically wounded and taken to a local hospital. He died of his injuries on November 19, 2014, four days after the attack.

Detectives identified the other victims as Trevor Fantroy, Lewis Green, and Danielle Keyes. Investigators targeted a suspect named Scott Goodwin-Bey, described as an acquaintance of the victims, and believed the shootings were prompted by his suspicion that the group had been informing police about his alleged drug activity. A witness who had been in the room reportedly escaped the gunfire and later identified Goodwin-Bey as the shooter.

Early charges were filed but prosecutors faced a major setback in 2016 when a judge ruled that ballistics evidence linking casings from the scene to a gun allegedly in Goodwin-Bey’s possession was scientifically subjective and inadmissible, prompting charges to be dropped. What information do readers have about the victims, their connections, or the night at the motel?