KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man serving time for a 2022 shooting death outside a Westport nightclub has been charged with first-degree murder in the 2018 shooting death of a man in Kansas City, Kansas.
Wyandotte County prosecutors charged Lavont A. Carter, 24, with first-degree felony murder in the death of KC Gillespie of Edwardsville, Kansas.
KCK police were called to the parking lot of the Forest Glen Estates Apartments near North 65th Street and Interstate 70 on a reported fatal traffc crash.
They found Gillespie dead from a gunshot wound inside a white SUV that crashed into a tree.
He left behind a fiancee and a 2-year-old daughter, according to a GoFundMe post after his death.
Carter is an inmate at the Moberly Correctional Center in Missouri for the July 10, 2022, shooting death of 24-year-old Cardell Crawford
He is serving a 15-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter, armed criminal action and two counts of second-degree assault in Crawford's death.
That shooting happened outside the now-closed Ale House bar at 4128 Broadway in the Westport Entertainment District.
A court document states that during the altercation, several individuals began shooting at each other outside the bar.
KSHB 41 reporter Megan Abundis reported groups were seen shoving each other, and security guards verbally told people to separate, which was later followed by gunfire and footsteps running away.
Another video shows two people face down on the asphalt, not moving.
Camille Crawford, who lives in Florida, told KSHB 41 News that Cardell was one of her five other siblings.
She said Cardell was at Ale House with his friends and tried to protect them and himself.
Cardell left behind a 3-year-old daughter.
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