Overview
- Police were called to a report of a domestic disturbance in the 2800 block of East Sixth Street, which occurred Thursday, June 25, and officers heard a disturbance followed by multiple gunshots as they approached the home.
- Officers forced entry, found a woman with gunshot wounds, and she was taken to a hospital where she died a short time later; police identified the victim as Antwala Kelly, 45.
- Kansas City police arrested a man at the scene and Jackson County prosecutors charged William O'Neal with second-degree murder and armed criminal action, with a judge setting bond at $300,000 cash only.
- Court documents and witnesses, including relatives and a juvenile who left the house as officers tried to enter, describe an escalating assault and report that O'Neal said, 'You not going to make it out alive,' before gunfire.
- Investigators and prosecutors continue collecting evidence and interviewing witnesses while authorities ask the public to submit tips to local Crime Stoppers lines as detectives also probe a separate deadly Friday-night shooting in northeast Kansas City.