Man charged with shooting brother after argument ‘over a girl’: Court documents
A Kansas City man was charged Monday in Jackson County court in the fatal shooting of his brother in Sugar Creek Saturday, according to a press release from Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office Director of Communications Jazzlyn Johnson.
Jacob Ackerman faces one count each of second-degree murder and armed criminal action, according to a Jackson County court document.
Around 10 p.m. on July 5, Sugar Creek police officers were dispatched to Missouri Route 291 and Missouri Route 210 on requests of a welfare check, according to a probable cause affidavit for Ackerman’s arrest.
The person who requested the welfare check was a relative of the victim who had been watching the victim’s location on the “Life 360” app, according to the affidavit. The victim’s location had not moved in seven hours.
After arriving at the location, officers found the victim on the bank of a pond with a wound to the back of his head, according to the affidavit. A large pool of blood surrounded the victim.
Relatives of the victim contacted officers around 3 a.m., inquiring about the “victim’s brother,” Ackerman, who “they believed he was responsible for the victim’s death,” according to the affidavit.
In a phone call to the medical examiner’s office, relatives referred to the incident as “a ‘Cain and Abel’ situation,” according to the affidavit. Relatives later advised officers that the victim’s car was found in Ackerman’s driveway.
Ackerman was taken into custody without incident around 6:45 a.m., according to the affidavit.
The victim’s relatives showed detectives a photo of Ackerman and the victim in the same area the victim’s body had been located, according to an affidavit. They told investigators Ackerman’s mental health had been declining because he “had been jealous of the victim for most of his life” because the victim was successful and Ackerman was “struggling.”
Surveillance video from a nearby gas station showed the pair in the black Mercedes together, according to the affidavit.
In an interview with police, Ackerman told officers he “had no knowledge of where his brother was located,” according to the affidavit. When officers told the man the situation looked bad, Ackerman allegedly said, “If it looks bad then it’s bad.”
He later allegedly admitted to officers that he had stood behind the victim and shot him in the head, because the pair had “gotten into an argument over a girl,” according to the affidavit.
Ackerman is being held on a $300,000 cash-only bond, according to court documents. No further court appearances are set in the case.
This story was originally published July 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM.
