OTTAWA COUNTY, Okla. — Two Missouri residents caught in a shootout with law enforcement officers this summer died from gunshot wounds to the head, according to autopsies released on Tuesday.
Lexi Lanaye Scheets, 35, of Willard, Mo., and Jason Mathew Moore, 48, of Columbia, Mo., were killed on June 16 near the Miami Welcome Center on the Will Rogers Turnpike after fleeing from authorities. Officers began pursuing a Jeep Commander reported stolen from Missouri into Oklahoma after it was spotted at a local casino.
Social media posts suggest Scheets and Moore were a couple and may have been married.
The cause of death for Scheets is listed as a gunshot wound to the head. Moore’s cause of death was gunshot wounds to the head and neck; both deaths were listed as homicide, according to the autopsy reports…