Inset: Antwon Shirley (Jackson County Detention Center). Background: A residential street near the Kansas City, Mo., area where Shirley allegedly fatally shot a woman (Google Maps).
A Missouri man has been jailed after authorities say he shot and killed a woman in front of her children.
Antwon Shirley, 43, is charged in Jackson County with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, burglary, unlawful possession of a firearm, and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, prosecutors said.
The fatal shooting happened Saturday, Aug. 1, at a home on Agnes Avenue in Kansas City’s North Town Fork Creek neighborhood. The victim was identified as 38-year-old Nevada N. Mosley.
Kansas City Police Department officers were called to the residence shortly before 7 a.m., according to charging documents obtained by The Kansas City Star and Kansas City-based Fox affiliate WDAF.
When officers entered the home, they found Mosley in a bedroom with two gunshot wounds, police said. She was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Investigators also recovered shell casings from the bedroom floor, along with paperwork belonging to both Shirley and Mosley, according to a probable cause statement.
Police said the bedroom door appeared to have been kicked in, and surveillance video showed Shirley’s vehicle outside the home.
Shirley quickly became the focus of the investigation after three juveniles who were at the residence identified him to police as the person responsible, authorities said. One child reported hearing “the sound of something clicking” before Mosley was shot, while two other children were asleep when the gunfire occurred, 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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