Eric Alan Whittington was 50, a man whose life ended in the first minutes after midnight on May 30, 2024, at a house on Freddy Lane in rural Newton County, south of Joplin and near Seneca. Deputies responding to a shooting call found him outside on the ground, already dead, as detectives began piecing together what happened in the cramped, chaotic moments that spilled from the home to the yard.
Investigators quickly focused on a roommate, Joshua William Ray Taft, after reporting that an
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