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On November 1, 2020, St. Louis police were summoned to the 5900 block of Bartmer, which is located in the West End. On late Sunday night, two people were found shot to death inside a blue sedan. The deceased were 36-year-old David Joshua Long of Fredericktown and 20-year-old Ashlyn Ketcherside from Farmington, Missouri. The double homicide brought St. Louis' murder total to 220.


The events leading up to the shooting began on Halloween 2020. Ashlyn was visiting with her father Darcy “Dink” Ketcherside. Ashlyn's friend David Joshua Long picked her up and drove her to Saint Louis. Dink’s last words to his daughter were I love you. According to Dink, Long went to St. Louis not knowing he was being set up to be physically assaulted.


Once David Long reached his destination, an unknown killer opened fire on him. He was killed instantly. Ashlyn ducked down and climbed into the backseat when the killer started firing. She was shot in the neck and leg. She died instantly. The killer managed to escape and there were no witnesses to provide law enforcement with any useful information.


If you have any information about the death of Ashlyn Nicole Ketcherside or David Joshua Long, please contact: the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department-Homicide Division at 314-444-5371 or Crime Stoppers at 866-371-TIPS(8477). You can also visit the Justice for Ashlyn Nicole Facebook page for additional details about this case.


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This week on the Millionaire Car Salesman Podcast, Sean V. Bradley, CSP interviews David Long, the Executive GM of Hansel Auto Group, an eight rooftop auto group with locations in Sonoma County, CA.  They discuss the evolution of the automotive industry.  

The retail automotive industry today is a people business.  It is all about customer service, the customer experience, and taking a customer first mentality.  It is also about your people; training, developing, leading, and mentoring them to be successful, personally and professionally, while putting the customer first.  

David discusses how having the proper dealer-vendor relationships helps to achieve this.  One of his favorite vendor relationships is CallSource.  CallSource records and tracks all inbound and outbound phone calls.  He receives DealSaver Alerts from CallSource, which are email updates on every call where his staff did not ask for the appointment or the customer did not commit to an appointment.  Additionally, Call Source aids Jeff and his team with their DealSaver Recovery Alert Program, where CallSource’s call center returns a call to the customer to go for the appointment that his team failed to get.

CallRevu Acquired CallSource’s automotive division in September 2021.  However, CallRevu does not intend to eliminate any of CallSources technology, people, or services.  Instead, CallRevu plans to combine the best of both businesses to advance its technology and provide a higher level of service to automotive dealerships.

About David Long

David Long has been in the automotive industry for 30 years.  He started working in a detail department in FL until he made the transition to the sales floor.  As a sales associate, his work ethic and dedication resulted in him being the #1 one sales rep in the country for the #1 automotive group in the country.  He climbed his way up to management and eventually bought his own store.  He had a great run with his Ford store and then sold it right before the last recession.  Today, he runs Hansel Auto Group, an eight rooftop automotive group in California that sells over 1,000 cars per month.

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David Long is the Executive General Manager of the Hansel Auto Group. David has experience with almost every aspect of the auto industry, having been a general manager, owner, operating partner, VP of operations, and consultant in and out of auto. 

Before Hansel Auto Group, David was the Used Vehicle Director for the Del Grande Dealer Group and Vice President of Operations at The Niello Company.

In this episode…

Everyone knows the “golden rule”: treat people the way you want to be treated. Many businesses, including car dealerships, have been using this rule to provide different types of services and products to their customers. But, because of advancements in technology, there is a need for dealerships to reconstruct this rule.

David Long believes that the new “golden rule” is slightly different:treat people the way they want to be treated. This means that dealerships should figure out how their customers want to engage and use that to their advantage. Some customers prefer text messages, some like talking through the phone, and still others may prefer face-to-face communication. So, how do you discover what your customer wants?

In this episode of the Inside Auto Podcast, co-hosts Aharon Horwitz and Ilana Shabtay are joined by David Long, the Executive General Manager of the Hansel Auto Group, to talk about how dealerships should communicate and sell to their customers. They discuss the “golden rule”, how technology and COVID-19 have changed how dealerships operate, and how the Clubhouse app is being used by players in the automotive industry.

You may know David Long as a ferocious hitting linebacker that concluded his career at West Virginia as the Big 12 Conference Defensive Player of the Year. However, there's so much more to his story which includes living with his high school football coach from ninth grade until his graduation.

In this episode, Brad Howe and Tony Caridi learn how Long's upbringing fueled his determination to overcome obstacles that could have ended his career prematurely.
Instead, Long left WVU as one of its all-time leading performers and is on the verge of being chosen in the NFL draft.

The story of David Long revealed on Three Guys Before The Game.