SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A second individual has been charged after a man was found deceased in a ditch on Sunday, Oct. 26.
According to online court dockets, Shannon Phillips, born 1976, of Springfield, has been charged with abandonment of a corpse, a class E felony.
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The probable cause statement states that law enforcement responded to N. Farm Rd. 153 around 6:34 a.m. and found a deceased man with two apparent gunshot wounds. The man was later identified as 50-year-old David Costlow.
Officials later arrested Paul Ray Sartin after identifying a white Chevrolet Suburban near the location that was owned by him…