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Missouri teen charged with shooting, killing friend
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LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — A Lee’s Summit teenager is accused of shooting and killing a friend in the basement of the victim’s home.
Prosecutors charged 18-year-old Cooper Ashley with involuntary manslaughter in the May 13 shooting of 18-year-old Dakota Wrightsman.
Lee’s Summit police responded to a shooting call at a home near SE King and SE Third streets around 1 a.m.
According to court documents, emergency responders found Wrightsman bleeding from his head and neck near the top of the stairs on the second story. He died from his injuries.
Wrightsman’s father told officers that he was outside and heard a gunshot. He went inside and saw his son running upstairs to his mother. The court document also shows he told detectives that his son was in the basement of the house with Cooper and two other people at the time of the shooting.
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When detectives interviewed Cooper about the shooting the teenager said he, Wrightsman and two other people were in the basement of Wrightsman’s home. Cooper said he noticed a handgun on the floor and picked it up. The court document says Cooper said he had a finger on the trigger and a single shot fired from the gun. Tests found gunshot residue on Cooper’s hands.
Cooper also admitted to investigators that he consumed marijuana shortly before the shooting according to the court paperwork.
One of the other witnesses in the basement at the time of the shooting provided more information about the shooting when detectives asked how Wrightsman died.
The probable cause statement shows the witness told officers the gun belonged to him. He said he thought the gun fell out of the pocket of his hoodie when he and another witness were wrestling over a beanbag in the Wrightsman’s basement.
According to the court document, the witnesses said right after the shooting Cooper said he thought the gun was his airsoft gun, although Cooper never mentioned the airsoft gun to detectives.
The witness continued and said that following the shooting Cooper talked about running from the house before asking the others in the basement to help come up with a “story” about what happened.
The witness told officers that Cooper also drank alcohol before the shooting.
Detectives then watched video from the house. It showed Wrightsman’s father asking his son’s three friends what happened in the basement.
“We had the gun. It was on the floor and I went to move it away so this wouldn’t happen and it just went off,” Ashley said according to the probable cause statement.
But during police interviews, the other two witnesses told detectives they saw Cooper pointing the gun directly at Wrightsman’s head according to the court document.
Detectives also interviewed other people who know Cooper. One of the people said he taught Cooper how to shoot guns.
The witnesses also told detectives that Cooper was known to carry an airsoft gun around. They reported that Cooper liked to point the weapon at himself and other people and pull the trigger, according to the probable cause statement.
Cooper posted $5,000 bond and is scheduled to be back in court June 20.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Two people are behind bars after a man reportedly attacked a Jefferson County deputy with a screwdriver during an attempted arrest over the weekend.
Prosecutors have charged Nicholas Davis, 47, and Amanda Davis, 45, of Dittmer, Missouri, with felonies in the investigation.
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The alleged attack followed a traffic stop of a driver in the 9500 block of Jones Creek Road on July 7, though the driver was not Nicholas or Amanda.
According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Nicholas reportedly came out of his nearby home, yelled at a deputy and started approaching him while holding a screwdriver. The deputy initially ordered Nicholas to back away, then used pepper spray.
Per court documents, the deputy attempted to arrest Nicholas, who then struck him in the chest with the screwdriver. Amanda reportedly approached the deputy and pulled him away from Nicholas before both ran inside their home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the situation prompted an hours-long standoff involving negotiators, a SWAT team and a K-9 deputy. The situation led to Nicholas refusing warnings and being bitten by a K-9.
Nicholas and Amanda are both jailed in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Nicholas is charged with first-degree assault on a special victim and armed criminal action. Amanda is charged with resisting/interfering with arrest.
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ST. LOUIS — The new St. Louis schools superintendent will be officially sworn into office today. Dr. Keisha Scarlett took over the job in July after the retirement of Dr. Kelvin Adams. She was assistant superintendent in the Seattle Public School District. The installation ceremony is at 6:15 p.m. before the regular school board meeting.
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ST. LOUIS — A gasoline tanker truck crashed into a Metro transit center near Riverview and Hall Streets early Tuesday morning and knocked over a power pole. The pole is leaning on other power lines. Police have the area blocked off here because there is a downed power line. Ameren and Metro crews are also on the scene.
The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. It’s still unclear exactly what caused the crash, but we do that there was a second vehicle somehow involved. The airbags on that second vehicle did deploy.
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Police at the scene have not been able to give us a lot of details. Metro officials tell FOX 2 that the transit center here is operating this morning for passengers and buses. Access to certain areas will be limited here as clean up unfolds.
A Metro spokesperson says half of the station isn’t being used right now because of safety issues. It isn’t impacting overall bus operations, everything is just happening on the other side of transit center.
The extent of the damage to the actual transit center is still unclear, but I’m told it does not appear to be extreme. A Metro spokesperson tells me there were no injuries to any metro workers or passengers. The tanker driver also was not injured.
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