KANSAS CITY —A Kansas City-area man has been charged in the fatal shooting on Tuesday of Elijah Flores in a vacant lot in the 700 block of Ditman Avenue in Kansas City, according to Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker.
Mark Sellars, 43, faces charges of Murder 2nd Degree, Unlawful Use of a Weapon, Unlawful Possession of a Firearm, and Armed Criminal Action.
According to court records, Kansas City police were dispatched to the 700 block of Ditman Avenue regarding a shooting. They found the victim, Elijah Flores, dob: 3/3/1983, on the ground suffering from gunshot wounds. He was declared deceased at the scene. The Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide.
Witnesses told police the shooting occurred inside a nearby residence. A witness told police she saw the victim with a man wearing a mask and the defendant. But the victim and defendant became involved in a verbal altercation. Sellars pulled a handgun and shot the victim in the back. Another witness told police that he heard three gunshots, then he saw the victim hobbling up the street, yelling for help. A man, identified as the defendant, held a handgun in his right hand
Prosecutors requested the defendant be held on no bond.