On the night of October 6, 2014, officers in Springfield, Missouri, found 21-year-old Charles J. Cortez lying in the street in the 1800 block of North Weller Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. A female passenger, Shannon L. Gibson, suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the same incident.Court testimony described the violence as erupting inside a vehicle after a methamphetamine deal went bad.

Cortez, Gibson and two other people had accepted a ride from two men identified later as the primary suspects. The driver pulled a handgun and began firing inside the car; another passenger, Jason Moreno, escaped from the moving vehicle, Gibson was wounded, and Cortez was pushed out of the car and left on the road.The suspects were tracked to Lebanon, Missouri, after a tip; they crashed while fleeing and were arrested. Brian S. Jones was later convicted of second-degree murder and armed criminal action, and sentenced to life in prison for Cortez’s death.

Did anyone who knew Charles or was in that area that night see or hear anything that could add details?