Lucas James Leon Goss, 21, died after being shot on July 5, 2021, in Wellston, Oklahoma, following a long-running dispute with a neighbor over property. Family remembered him as an animal lover who liked building with Legos and watching horror movies, described as tough but tender with his family.

According to accounts, the argument involved a fence the neighbor, 38-year-old Freddie Antonie Seamster, was building on land he had purchased from Goss’s mother. The dispute turned physical that Monday afternoon. Seamster said Goss approached him with a large stick; Seamster then retrieved a .40 caliber pistol and fired. Goss was shot twice—once through the stomach and once through the arm and into the stomach—and was pronounced dead shortly after hospital arrival. Seamster called 911 and surrendered at his home.

Seamster was arrested and charged with first-degree murder with malice aforethought; he maintained he acted in self-defense. In May 2022 the murder charge was dismissed without prejudice after the District Attorney said available evidence supported the self-defense claim. Does anyone have information about the dispute or what led to that afternoon’s confrontation?