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Bosonic

(3,746 posts) Fri Apr 18, 2014, 02:35 PM Apr 2014

Grandview man, 27, charged in area highway shootings

Last edited Fri Apr 18, 2014, 05:10 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Kansas City Star

Kansas City police used tips about an erratic driver, a fingerprint from a plastic bag of shell casings and a bullet from a house that was shot last year to link Mohammed Whitaker, 27, to a series of recent highway shootings.

Jackson County prosecutors on Friday announced 18 felony charges against Whitaker involving nine separate shootings. Two of the charges relate to cases where victims were wounded. Seven cases involve shootings where victims were not hit.

Whitaker remained in jail Friday in lieu of a $1 million cash-only bond.

Officers had been trailing Whitaker for about a week while they finished testing evidence and gathering new information. They arrested him at his Grandview apartment Thursday night as soon as they thought they had enough evidence to justify it.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/18/4968116/man-27-charged-in-area-highway.html

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Grandview man, 27, charged in area highway shootings (Original Post) Bosonic Apr 2014 OP

Finally! tazkcmo Apr 2014 #1

Caught a suspect anyway. AtheistCrusader Apr 2014 #3

True n/t tazkcmo Apr 2014 #4

Mental illness is running rampant these days. blm Apr 2014 #2

Post removed Post removed Apr 2014 #7

Little criminal record? Xipe Totec Apr 2014 #5

Thank goodness, this has given me a lot of anxiety during my commute! cbdo2007 Apr 2014 #6

Whitaker is on administrative leave from his job at OptumRx in Overland Park, jtuck004 Apr 2014 #8

Gun culture had a hand in this. nt onehandle Apr 2014 #9

Was Mohammed Whitaker a member of the NRA? seveneyes Apr 2014 #11

I doubt it. 840high Apr 2014 #12

A black guy whose first name is "Mohammed"? Paladin Apr 2014 #10

tazkcmo

(7,300 posts)

1. Finally!

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Fri Apr 18, 2014, 02:38 PM

Apr 2014

So glad they caught this guy.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)

3. Caught a suspect anyway.

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Fri Apr 18, 2014, 02:48 PM

Apr 2014

tazkcmo

(7,300 posts)

4. True n/t

Reply to AtheistCrusader (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 18, 2014, 02:53 PM

Apr 2014

blm

(113,063 posts)

2. Mental illness is running rampant these days.

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Fri Apr 18, 2014, 02:48 PM

Apr 2014

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Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

5. Little criminal record?

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Fri Apr 18, 2014, 02:59 PM

Apr 2014

As in a little pregnant?

cbdo2007

(9,213 posts)

6. Thank goodness, this has given me a lot of anxiety during my commute!

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Fri Apr 18, 2014, 03:14 PM

Apr 2014

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)

8. Whitaker is on administrative leave from his job at OptumRx in Overland Park,

Reply to Bosonic (Original post)

Fri Apr 18, 2014, 04:04 PM

Apr 2014

the division of UnitedHealth Group that fills prescriptions, a company spokesman said."
-from link.

He filled prescriptions? Or operated a machine that did so? And is alleged now to have killed random people with a gun. yeesh.

Wonder if he was dipping into the cookie jar at work? I wonder if the equipment he was operating is tamper-proof?