Shortly after midnight on July 27, 2024, deputies in Eolia, Missouri, responded to a 911 report of a shooting at a home on Collage Circle Drive and found two 26-year-olds dead from gunshot wounds. The victims were Timothy Todd and Kaitlyn Potter-Navratil. Witnesses described a heated argument inside the residence shortly before the shots.

Witness accounts say the argument involved 53-year-old Matthew Garrett Todd, identified as Timothy’s father. According to those statements, Matthew Todd asked the younger couple to leave; when they did not, he retrieved a firearm and initially fired three rounds into the ceiling before shooting Timothy Todd and Kaitlyn Potter-Navratil. Matthew Todd was taken into custody at the scene without incident.

Charges filed include two counts of first-degree murder, domestic assault, unlawful use of a weapon, and armed criminal action. He is being held in the Pike County Jail on $500,000 bond. If anyone has information about the events that led to this shooting or knew either victim, please share what is known with investigators.