Cody Allen Schmidt was a 30-year-old White man found dead in a roadside ditch near the rural crossroads of 266th Street and 464th Avenue, roughly a mile east of Wall Lake in Minnehaha County, South Dakota. His body was discovered by a landowner checking cattle the morning after August 2, 2020. Investigators said he had suffered gunshot wounds and the death was treated as a homicide; a neighbor reported hearing gunshots the night before he was found.

Within days the investigation produced arrests. Two Sioux Falls men, Luis Antonio Rodriguez and Adam Christopher Sorbel, were taken into custody as the sheriff’s office built the case. Authorities said the victim and the suspects knew each other and described charges tied not only to the shooting but also to an alleged abduction. Charging reports variously described murder counts, kidnapping, and a firearm-related felony connected to the death, with some accounts calling the killing first-degree premeditated murder and others second-degree murder.

What did anyone who knew Cody or who was in the Wall Lake area that night see or hear?