KANSAS CITY—A Kansas City-area man has been charged in the fatal shooting of his father on Wednesday at a Lee's Summit residence, according to Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker.
Michael E. Hamilton, 23, Lee's Summit, faces Murder 2nd Degree and Armed Criminal Action charges.
According to court records filed Friday, Lee's Summit police were dispatched to the 1100 block of SW Arborfair Drive on a reported death.
Officers found the victim, Robert Hamilton, on the kitchen floor. A family member was crying on top of him. Another family member told police that Hamilton had been living in the residence recently. She had driven to the residence and had found the victim inside on the floor in blood.
She could not find Hamilton. Lee's Summit police pinged the Hamilton's phone. He was eventually located in Cooper County, Missouri.
Officers took him into custody and found weapons, including a 9 mm handgun. The Kansas City Police Department's crime lab quickly concluded that a spent bullet recovered from the victim was fired from the 9 mm handgun recovered from the defendant.
Hamilton is being held on a $300,000 bond.