A Kansas City, Kansas, man is being held without bond after a shooting outside a Raytown home last Sunday left a woman hospitalized with multiple gunshot wounds. Marcus Cooper now faces three felony charges tied to the attack, which court documents say happened while a child he shares with the victim sat in his vehicle.
Cooper was charged with first-degree domestic assault, armed criminal action and first-degree endangering the welfare of a child in a filing submitted Monday in Jackson County, according to KCTV. He is accused of shooting the woman outside a home in Raytown on Sunday. Responding officers found her face down in the front yard with multiple gunshot wounds, the station reported.
Prosecutor Says Victim Is in Stable Condition
Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson said Monday that the woman was hospitalized and is in stable condition. Detectives claimed Cooper fired at the victim from inside his own vehicle, the station's report notes, rather than during a direct physical confrontation on foot.
Court documents said a child shared by Cooper and the woman was in the vehicle with him at the moment he fired the shots. That detail forms the basis for the child-endangerment charge now filed against him, per the same account. Cooper remains in custody in Jackson County and is being held without bond.
What Missouri Law Says About the Charges
Under Missouri law, first-degree domestic assault is classified as a class B felony unless the person inflicts serious physical injury on the victim, in which case it becomes a class A felony, according to the Missouri Revisor of Statutes. The underlying court filing itself was not made available for direct review, so the full scope of the allegations against Cooper, as reported here, rests on the station's account of the charging documents.
