On the afternoon of August 20, 2022, 22-year-old Shavez Avieon Waage was shot and killed in the parking lot of Moser’s Grocery Store on Keene Street in Columbia, Missouri. Emergency crews responded after reports of gunfire around 4:20 p.m.; officers found Waage in the driver’s seat with gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead after on-scene aid.

Security footage showed Waage parking next to a dark gray Ford Fusion before two men, later identified as 22-year-old Loyal Benae Martel of Holts Summit and 22-year-old Joshua Roger Lee Dudley of Kirksville, entered his vehicle. The footage captured Martel exiting the car, leaning back in briefly, then both men fleeing in the Fusion. Investigators determined the encounter was a robbery that turned violent.

Both suspects were located with assistance from several law enforcement agencies and booked into the Boone County Jail. Martel was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree robbery, unlawful use of a weapon, and armed criminal action; Dudley was charged with second-degree murder, first-degree robbery, and armed criminal action. Did anyone in the Columbia area see activity in that grocery parking lot that afternoon or have information about the Fusion?