A verbal dispute at an Arby’s on Denmark Road in Union, Missouri, on the evening of Sunday, July 30, 2023, escalated into a fatal shooting. The argument among several people moved into the parking lot and those involved briefly dispersed. Shortly afterward police were notified of a nearby shooting and found 49-year-old Ronnie Wayne Sanford II lying near the intersection of Old Highway 50 E and Highway 50 with a gunshot wound. He was taken to Mercy Hospital Washington, where he was pronounced dead.

While officers were at the scene, a woman who had been part of the earlier argument returned and received a call from her husband telling her he had just shot Sanford. The suspect, identified as 40-year-old Antoine Brown, also known as Antoine Frazier, of Union, was taken into custody at the shooting scene and later charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action. He is being held on a no-bond warrant. Reports say Sanford and the suspect did not know one another before that evening.

Does anyone have information about the confrontation at the restaurant or what led to the argument?