Man Gets Shot 8 Times While His Friend Got Ambushed, Survives, His Wife Finds A Bullet In His Neck The Doctors Missed

GRANDVIEW, Mo. — A man who survived getting shot eight times in a Jackson County park is speaking out about the ambush that killed his friend.

Orson “Treyce” Roth III died in the Oct. 12 shooting. Grandview police confirmed no arrests have been made. Investigators are now calling on the public for leads.

When the shooting happened in broad daylight last Wednesday, authorities — including a Kansas City police helicopter — were involved in the search for suspects. Since then, police haven’t shared any movement on the case with the public.

Now, the other man who was nearly killed in that shooting is sharing his experience firsthand.

Fifty-year-old James Patrick Stowe said he’s called Roth’s voicemail often during the past week just to hear his voice.

About a week after the shooting, Stowe guided FOX4 around the area in O’Donnell Park where the shooting happened. The two men were friends, and Stowe said it was their hang-out spot.

“And we sit and we talk about different role playing games — Dungeons and Dragons and Risk and all that kind of stuff — and then talk about things like life,” Stowe said.

“We hear ‘bang!’ And he was like ‘What was that? A firework?’ And I look over, and I see a guy with a gun, and I like nod my head because that’s a reaction when you see a person like, ‘Oh hey.’ Then I’m like, ‘Treyce, we need to go. We need to go!'” Stowe said.

“I am just so amazingly lucky that I’m not dead,” Stowe said.

He was shot eight times, damaging two vertebrae and collapsing a lung.

After being discharged from the hospital, Stowe's wife found a slug in the back of his neck which the doctors somehow missed. She made a video of her digging the bullet out of his neck with tweezers.