The Rolla Daily News
The Phelps County Sheriff’s Department said they ve arrested a man and a woman in connection with a homicide at the Economy Inn in St. James.
The Phelps County Sheriff’s Department, in a Facebook post Wednesday, said deputies were assisting the St. James Police Department with a homicide, where a man was killed at the Economy Inn in St. James Wednesday.
The sheriff’s department said during the investigation, police identified a 20-year-old male and a 29-year-old female as suspects, and the information was disseminated to law enforcement and the public through the Everbridge notification system.
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Witnesses describe deadly Phelps County shooting as self-defense
KMIZ
DOOLITTLE, Mo. (AP)
Authorities say witnesses are describing a deadly shooting in southwest Missouri as self-defense.
Phelps County Sheriff Sheriff Michael Kirn said in a news release that was posted Monday on Facebook that deputies talked to six eyewitnesses to the Jan. 16 shooting in Dolittle in which Donny Mason was killed and another man suffered a leg wound. The release said the witnesses reported that Mason drew a pistol first and approached the other man with his gun pointed at him.
Witnesses said that s when the other man drew his pistol and the two began shooting at one another.