KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jackson County, Missouri authorities have charged a 37-year-old California man in the weekend shooting death of a retired minister.
David Allen of Vacaville, Calif., was charged Sunday with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of 58-year-old Thomas Dean Sr. Dean was shot to death outside a home Saturday.
Witnesses told police that Dean had gone to the home to help a friend move. Police arrested Allen a few minutes later, near a park several blocks away.
Dean’s relatives said that although Dean had retired from regular ministry, he continued to fill in for other ministers.
Records provided by the prosecutor’s office don’t list a lawyer for Allen.