Joshua Sisk, 39, a taxidermist who owned American Wildlife Taxidermy, was shot and killed the evening of July 28, 2022, on North Martin Avenue near East Main Street in East Prairie, Missouri. Multiple gunshots were reported; officers found Sisk with multiple gunshot wounds and he was airlifted to Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, where he was pronounced dead.

A suspect was identified as 33-year-old DeParis Davion Townsend of Charleston, Missouri. Townsend reportedly fled in a vehicle and was taken into custody a short time later by Charleston Department of Public Safety officers. The investigation involved the Missouri State Highway Patrol Division of Drug and Crime Control, the East Prairie Police Department, the Charleston Police Department, and the Mississippi County Sheriff’s Office. Townsend was charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon, and resisting arrest.

What details about that night or the people involved might help shed more light on this killing?