Independence man is third charged in March shooting at N. Kansas City High basketball game
An Independence man is the third suspect charged in connection with a shooting that injured two people and sent attendees at a North Kansas City High School basketball game scrambling for safety earlier this year.
Nathaniel M. Greer was indicted Monday by a grand jury in Clay County Circuit Court on one count of unlawful use of a weapon for injuring a person, one count of armed criminal action and another count of unlawful use of a weapon for carrying a loaded firearm into a school.
Greer’s bond was set at $250,000. If released, he was ordered to be on house arrest with electronic monitoring, according to court records.
The March 2 shooting on the North Kansas City High School campus happened at the end of a boy’s basketball game between North Kansas City and Staley high schools.
When prosecutors announced charges for two brothers, Lavondre Smallwood and Michael Smallwood, in March, they said five people fired shots outside during an exchange between two groups of young men. All five were in possession of loaded firearms inside the North Kansas City High School gym, authorities said.
Investigators said the gunfire stemmed from a dispute that touched off after the two groups left the basketball game.
Two people were injured in the shooting. One of the injured was a bystander, a student who was not associated with the two groups, and the other was a member of one of the groups and could be seen firing a gun once during the exchange, prosecutors said.
