KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mohammed Whitaker remains behind bars Saturday at the Jackson County Detention Center. Many people have been following the headlines and keeping up with who he is or where he might have had ties, including one man who had spoken to police about something that happened at his house.
However, he didn’t realize the incident at his home had ties to the person charged in the highway shootings.
“It came from that house there, from that direction. I’m glad we weren’t in there,” said Dwight Tolbert
Tolbert pointed out a bullet hole in the back of his home in the 9000 block of Belmont that led to a bathroom. Police say the bullet made its way from the general direction of a house in the 9000 block of Beacon.
Tolbert said he and his wife were watching TV last October when they heard a crash.
“She started looking around and she found the bullet laying on the floor by the stool,” Tolbert said.
The .380 bullet was linked to the highway shootings and to Whitaker by police.
“I’m glad he’s been caught so nobody else will be hurt,” Tolbert said.
So are a pair of women who live in the same neighborhood.
“We would hear gunshots you know at night, sometimes it would be like, it was always at least three or more,” said neighbor Erica Paige.
“One night it was like five of them, boom boom boom boom boom! (I) just called the police and let them know there was a shooting going on,” said another neighbor named Elaine.
They were sounds these neighbors haven’t heard in quite some time. They’re relieved, especially now that someone new lives in that house and since police have made an arrest in the highway shootings case.
“I’m happy they did their job. Lucky, you know, that we weren’t, none of us were harmed,” said Tolbert.
