On the night of February 6, 2020, a confrontation in a Walmart parking lot on East 29th Street in Muncie, Indiana resulted in the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Chase Allen Woolums. Woolums, a 2014 graduate of Daleville High School who worked for a tree trimming service and was married to Jasmine Wallace Woolums, had met with 31-year-old Justin Ryan Bennett after a dispute over a woman Bennett had previously dated. The men had exchanged heated text messages in the days before, with messages reportedly escalating to threats that Woolums would not leave the altercation alive.

When they met, Woolums approached a Dodge Dakota driven by Bennett armed with a tire iron. Bennett fired multiple shots from a silver handgun as Woolums tried to run; witnesses reported hearing at least three shots and seeing Bennett’s arm extend from the vehicle. Woolums was taken to IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. Bennett and a female companion, Hayle Tristan West, fled and were later apprehended after a police chase. Bennett was arrested and charged with murder and other offenses; West was arrested on an obstruction charge. Bennett admitted to shooting at Woolums and led police to the handgun used.

Are there witnesses or anyone who was in that parking lot that evening who can add details about what happened before the shooting?