Wes Westerman

Wes Westerman was a supporting character in the 1991 television movie In Broad Daylight, which was a dramatization of the events leading up to the murder of in . He was portrayed by the late . 
Westerman owned and operated a small grocery store in Darby, Missouri when Len Rowan (who was based on McElroy) took exception to the treatment one of his children had received in the store after the child tried to take a piece of candy. Rowan began a campaign of harassment against Westerman and his wife Ruth that ended with Rowan shooting Westerman in the neck. Despite his injuries, Westerman was still able to identify Rowan as the shooter when asked by local sheriff Phil Lewis.
By the summer of 1981 Westerman had recovered well enough to resume work, and to also testify against Rowan at his trial. Thanks in part to Westerman's testimony, Rowan was convicted for the shooting, marking the first time that he was found guilty in a court of law for a crime that he had committed.
==Trivia==
* Westerman was based upon the real life Skidmore grocery Ernest "Bo" Bowenkamp (1910-1991), who had been shot by McElroy after one of McElroy's children was called out for trying to steal a piece of candy from Bowenkamp's store.
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