KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Retired KCPD homicide detective Sgt. David Bernard told 41 Action News police are now tying loose ends around a suspect in murders along the Indian Creek Trail.
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Police first came in contact with Fredrick Scott in 2013 when officers were called to a house on the 1000 block of 99th Street.
According to police, Scott grabbed his mother and shoved her several times.
The following year, as a student at the Center Alternative School Scott threatened to “shoot up the school-columbine style”, to kill himself and “kill all white people,” officials said.
Scott’s mother told police he was showing signs of paranoid schizophrenia.
Co-workers at his most recent job, Burger King on Red Bridge and Holmes, said Scott never brought up race and didn’t act out.
Tuesday’s murder charges against Scott stunned them. Ballistic and DNA evidence tied the 22-year-old to two of the five murders.
“A lot of times you don’t recognize that these cases that you have are connected they can seemingly be random so even acknowledging or discovering that you have a serial killer is hard to do,” Bernard said.
The investigation continues. On Wednesday police went back to the house on 99th Street where Scott used to live.
The current homeowner didn’t want to go on camera but said police told her they would be back to process the backyard that Scott allegedly used for target practice.
Bernard believes Tuesday’s announcement will be helpful to detectives.
“Now is a good time for them to put a face out to the public and let people know that he’s in jail he’s probably not going to get out so if there’s any body know anything about any of these cases now is a good time to call in,” he said.
Now people are encouraged to call the tips hotline, but Bernard suggests people with information about these case to call the homicide unit at 816-234-5043 directly because those detectives will have specific questions to get more evidence.
“If they can call the homicide unit directly because those detectives have a lot of questions specific questions to get more evidence,” Bernard said.
