By Associated Press - Wednesday, February 17, 2021

BELTON, Mo. (AP) - Prosecutors in western Missouri have charged a man who is still on the lam with murder in the shooting death last week of another man in 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, the Kansas City Star reported.

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.

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