On the morning of Saturday, November 15, 2025, Ernest Darby, a 51-year-old white man from Joplin, Missouri, was found dead from an apparent gunshot wound inside his rural home on Emma Lane in northern Newton County. Deputies were sent to the address at about 8:53 a.m. after Newton County Central Dispatch received a report of a shooting at 7341 Emma Lane, a secluded property on several acres just south of Joplin's city limits. When law enforcement and emergency responders arrived, they discovered
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