In the late hours of a Sunday evening in Joplin, Missouri, on January 29, 2017, the life of 21-year-old Taven Lee Williams was tragically cut short. Williams, a male resident of Joplin, was at a home in the 2300 block of East Zora when violence erupted. What began as a robbery spiraled into a homicide, leaving one man dead and another wounded.
The incident unfolded when three men from Columbus, Kansas, arrived with the intention of robbing another man, Paul Haney, of marijuana. During the
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