Men From Bixby in Court

(Iron County, MO) Two men from Bixby, 48 year old Jeffery Preston Asher and 25 year old Lorenzo McGee, will have their preliminary hearings in Iron County Court Thursday, June 1st. The pair are in custody on first degree murder and armed criminal action charges in connection to the shooting death of 51 year old Donald Ray Barton. Barton was found shot and lying in the middle of Neals Creek Road March 27th. The crime scene is a few miles from the Bixby General Store. Motorists found Barton's body lying in the middle of the gravel road, with a gunshot wound to the stomach just southeast of the Pump Cemetery. Barton was flown to Missouri Baptist Hospital in Sullivan however he was pronounced dead by Hospital staff. McGee and Asher could receive life in prison with the possibility of the death penalty.