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On May 28, 2022, 57-year-old Joe Newburn was found in the roadway in the 100 block of West Church Street in Ozark, Missouri, suffering multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a Springfield hospital and died there the next day.

The shooting followed a confrontation just before 1 p.m. outside the Iguana Roja Restaurante on the courthouse square. A 47-year-old Springfield pastor, Matthew Dedmon, had driven to meet his wife and found her in a car with Newburn. Dedmon allegedly retrieved a pistol from his truck and shot Newburn three times in the chest. Responding officers took Dedmon into custody as a person of interest and recovered the firearm from his vehicle. He was later arrested and charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action and initially held without bond.

What details about the confrontation or the hours before the shooting might help explain what happened that day?