Judge sentences man for 4 shooting deaths inside a Springfield motel in 2014

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - A judge sentenced a Springfield man to four life sentences without parole for the shooting deaths of four people inside a Springfield motel in 2014.

A jury in September convicted Scott Goodwin-Bey. The jury deliberated for nearly two days.

Springfield police detectives tied Goodwin-Bey to a firearm used to kill Trevor Fantroy, Lewis Green, Danielle Keyes, and Christopher Freeman in November 2014 inside room 149 at the Economy Inn on North Glenstone Avenue. A witness told police he played dead in the motel room during the incident. Detectives believe Goodwin-Bey killed them because he thought they would tell police about his drug use.

Greene County prosecutors charged him with those deaths in February 2015. A prosecutor dropped the charges in December 2016 after a judge ruled against the ballistics evidence used to tie him to the gun used in the shootings. The prosecutor refiled the case in 2018.

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