The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO

November 19, 2009

<img src=" http://www.joplinglobeonline.com/images/zope/policeandfire.gif" border=0 > Aaron Pilgrim arrested on suspicion of murder


The Jasper County Sheriff’s Department reports that a bat and a knife were used in a fight Wednesday night that ended with one combatant killing the other.

Sheriff’s deputies were called at 7:15 p.m. to 2805 N. Red Fox Road regarding an assault involving weapons. Ralph Ivy, 50, who lives at the address, was taken to a local hospital, where he died, the sheriff’s department said in a news release today.

Deputies arrested Aaron Eugene Pilgrim, 37, at a nearby residence and held him over night at the Jasper County Jail on suspicion of murder.