James Ross Scott, 39, of Christmas Valley, Oregon, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of September 3, 2015, on SE Davis Loop near Juniper Canyon Road in southeast Prineville. The shooting occurred around 5 a.m. after an earlier meeting at a Prineville 7-Eleven where Scott, accompanied by his girlfriend Kindr Bork, sold what was described as methamphetamine to Cory Michael Donovan, 25, and another man. Donovan and his companion later discovered the drugs were fake, followed Scott and Bork, and encountered them parked on the rural road. Donovan fired multiple shots into the vehicle, striking Scott; Bork, who was in the passenger seat, was not physically injured and ran to a nearby house for help.

Investigators arrested Cory Michael Donovan of Prineville and charged him in connection with the killing; a second man, 26-year-old Justin Rennels of Bend, was later indicted and arrested. Bork became the state’s primary witness. What details about the confrontation and motives remain unclear to readers with information about that morning in Prineville?