KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City, Kansas, man is charged in the Sept. 30 murder of a man in east Kansas City, Missouri.
Osvaldo Rangel, 30, is charged in Jackson County Court with second degree murder and armed criminal action.
Rangel is accused of killing Phillip Croft, 50, after an early morning disturbance outside townhomes in the 2000 block of Wheeling Avenue.
Officers found Croft shot and partially underneath a parked Hummer H2 in a parking lot. He died a short time later.
Surveillance video later obtained by police shows Croft stopped his GMC Acadia nearby the Hummer, which appeared on surveillance video to have arrived and parked shortly before the disturbance.
Rangel is seen exiting a dark four-door sedan and approaching the passenger side of the Hummer, where a disturbance ensued, according to a press release from the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office.
The surveillance video allegedly captured Rangel shooting Croft at the rear of the Hummer.
Rangel is in the Jackson County Jail.
A judge set Rangel's bond at $150,000.
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