A four-hour long standoff came to a close at a home near McFall, Missouri Monday night when law enforcement official entered to find 50-year-old David M. Call of Kansas City, Missouri dead from a self-inflected gunshot wound.
Call was a suspect in a homicide that occurred in Trenton, Missouri Sunday, Oct. 26. Call was charged Monday with murder, arson, armed criminal action and abandonment of a corpse and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
“Investigators pinged his cellphone which led us to the Pattonsburg Missouri area, and finally led us to the residence there just east of McFall,” said Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Jacob Angle. “We were able to establish a quick perimeter so we felt we had the threat secure at that time.”
Angle said Call fired several shots at officers then barricaded himself into the residence near McFall, Missouri.
KCTV5 is reporting that Call’s former girlfriend, Becky Nelson Taul was the woman firefighters found Sunday inside the home located in the 600 block of Grundy Street in Trenton, Mo. Sunday. Taul was found with multiple gunshot wounds from a small-caliber handgun which she received before the fire was set.
The investigation continues by the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Trenton Police Department, Grundy County Sheriff’s Department, and Daviess County Sheriff’s Department.