Feb 17, 2021

Prosecutors charge, police seek suspect in KC-area killing

Posted Feb 17, 2021 3:00 PM
Baldwin photo Belton Police
Baldwin photo Belton Police

KANSAS CITY (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a man who is still on the lam with murder in the shooting death last week of another man in the Kansas City suburb of Belton.

Cass County prosecutors have charged Charles Baldwin Jr., 38, with murder, armed criminal action and weapons counts in the shooting death of 39-year-old Christopher Bell.

Belton officers were called around 12:30 a.m. Friday to an apartment complex and found Bell in the parking lot with gunshot wounds, police said. Bell later died.

Police are actively looking for Baldwin, and anyone with information on his whereabouts should call police, authorities said.