Crime

Kansas City area man charged with murder in fatal shooting of man at a gas station

A Kansas City, Kansas, man was charged with murder in the fatal shooting at a gas station near 35th Street and Prospect Avenue Thursday night, prosecutors announced Saturday.

Jackson County prosecutors charged Nerville Awuh, 39, with first-degree murder and armed criminal action.

Kansas City police responded to a reported shooting just after 10 p.m. at a Conoco gas station near 35th Street and Prospect Avenue where they found the victim, Pierre C. Hill-Williams, according to a news release from the prosecutor’s office.

Surveillance video at the gas station showed a verbal exchange between the suspect and the victim. Then the video shows the suspect raising an arm and allegedly shooting Hill-Williams in the back of the head before leaving in a rented vehicle.

Prosecutors asked for a $400,000 cash bond.

Hill-Williams’ death marked the 101st homicide this year in Kansas City and the fifth killing in the city in two days.

Gun violence will be the subject of a new, statewide journalism project The Star is undertaking in Missouri this year in partnership with the national service program Report for America and sponsored in part by Missouri Foundation for Health. As part of this project, The Star will seek the community’s help.

To contribute, visit Report for America online at reportforamerica.org.

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