Inset: Antwon Shirley (Jackson County Detention Center). Background: A residential street near where Shirley allegedly killed a woman in Kansas City, Mo. (Google Maps).
A Missouri man is behind bars for shooting and killing a woman in front of her children, Show-Me State authorities say.
Antwon Shirley, 43, stands accused of one count each of second-degree murder, armed criminal action, burglary, unlawful possession of a firearm and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, according to prosecutors in Jackson County.
The underlying incident occurred on Saturday, Aug. 1, at a residence on Agnes Avenue in the North Town Fork Creek neighborhood of Kansas City and took the life of 38-year-old Nevada N. Mosley.
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Officers with the Kansas City Police Department responded to the house just before 7 a.m., according to charging documents obtained by The Kansas City Star and Kansas City-based Fox affiliate WDAF.
Inside, Mosley was found in a bedroom suffering from two gunshot wounds, police said. The victim was then rushed to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead. On the bedroom floor, investigators found shell casings and paperwork belonging to both Shirley and Mosley, according to a probable cause statement.
The door to the bedroom had been kicked in and Shirley’s vehicle was seen outside the residence on surveillance footage, police said.
Attention soon focused on Shirley as the suspect because three juveniles at the residence told police he was responsible for the violence, police said. One of the children said they heard “the sound of something clicking” before the victim was shot, while two others were asleep at the time of the shooting, according to law enforcement.
The little girl who was awake said she saw Shirley aim his gun at Mosley, police said. Then, the woman tried to get out of bed but hit her head on an adjacent dresser, according to law enforcement, citing the child witness. Next, three shots rang out and the child ran out of the bedroom to find a relative, according to the charging document.
Another witness told investigators Mosley and Shirley “hadn’t been getting along” as of late and that the man was “very jealous,” according to the probable cause statement. Mosley had also asked Shirley to give her back the keys to her home, police said.
After the shooting, one of Shirley’s relatives contacted police to say she had spoken with the defendant who allegedly admitted “he’d done something bad,” according to the charging document. Shirley allegedly told this relative that he “snapped” and shot Mosley.
On two occasions, speaking with two different witnesses, the defendant said he was going to turn himself in, theorizing that “the whole city” was going to be looking for him, according to the probable cause statement. First, however, police believe the defendant made efforts to conceal his location by disposing of his cellphone and getting rid of a vehicle registered in his name.
On Sunday, Aug. 2, Shirley surrendered to police.
The defendant is detained in the Jackson County Detention Center on a $500,000 cash-only bond. He is slated to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on Sept. 2.
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