Monday, February 10, 2025

First degree murder charges filed against Wentworth man in shooting death of Amazon delivery driver


The Lawrence County Prosecuting Attorney's office upgraded the charges against a Wentworth man who allegedly shot an Amazon delivery driver after the driver died.

Thomas Coy, 64, is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action.

According to the probable cause statement, a witness saw the Amazon driver, Jasmine Sky Taylor, 23, Joplin, drive off Lawrence County Road 2152 and crashing into a fence.







From the probable cause statement:

On February 5,2025 at 5:44pm Lawrence Co. Dispatch received a phone call from Mercy Joplin Hospital that advised that V-1 had a bullet wound and the bullet was lodged in their head. 

On February 5, 2025 I was able to watch video from Amazon that showed V-1 driving and as the vehicle came up to the driveway up to 3902 Lawrence 2152, V-1 slumped over in the vehicle seat. 







The residence was IDed as the home of Thomas Coy, Mr. Coy was contacted and advised Miranda rights and confessed to shooting V-1 with a pellet rifle and saw the vehicle crash into the fence. Mr. Coy admitted to going to the Amazon vehicle and taking the V-1 from the seat laying V-1 in the ditch roadside. 

Coy's preliminary hearing is scheduled for 1 p.m. March 6 in Lawrence County Circuit Court.

Coy is being held without bond.

6 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:05 PM

    Thomas Coy, is a Crazy Loon - that just needs to be taken out of Society and locked up for life.

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  2. Anonymous5:02 PM

    The death penalty would be too kind. He needs to rot

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  3. Anonymous4:53 AM

    Why would anyone do something like this? What is the purpose? Did he think she was trespassing on his property?

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  4. Anonymous6:00 AM

    64 years old this dumb piece of shit has never made a good decision, look him and his son up on case net.

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  5. Anonymous9:42 AM

    I didn’t know that a pellet gun had that much power.

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    1. Anonymous2:25 AM

      There are some powerful pellet rifles. There's .22 caliber pellets that are like a .22 rifle. Pumped or powered with CO2 they could easily kill someone.

      They're not cheap. A lot of them are used in shooting competitions. I'm guessing that she has her window down because I don't think it would be able to penetrate the window and still have enough power to kill her.

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