The Jackson County Prosecutor has announced 18 felony charges stemming from 9 shooting incidents on highways in the Kansas City area against 27-year-old Mohammed Pedro Whitaker of Grandview.
Mohammed Pedro Whitaker (photo courtesy, KSSZ in Columbia)
Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker has filed 9 counts of shooting into a vehicle and 9 counts of armed criminal action against Whitaker. Whitaker could face life in prison if convicted.
Peters Baker says more charges could be filed later.
Three people sustained non-life-threatening wounds in the shootings that began March 8. Authorities believe 12 shootings are related, mostly in Kansas City but other happened in Lee’s Summit, Blue Springs and Leawood.
Whitaker is a 2004 graduate of Moberly Senior High School and a former Columbia resident.
KWIX in Moberly and KSSZ in Columbia contributed to this report
