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Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced Thursday that her office will re-examine the 2017 fatal shooting by a sheriff’s deputy of a man accused of shoplifting at a Raytown Walmart.
The decision reversed the statement given by Baker’s office Wednesday, when a spokesman said prosecutors had already reviewed the killing of Donald Sneed III and decided not to file criminal charges.
Questions about the 2017 shooting arose after the deputy, Lauren Michael of the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, was charged Wednesday with first-degree assault and armed criminal action in a more recent shooting this summer.
The charges stemmed from an Aug. 8 incident in which Michael shot a woman in the back while trying to arrest her for riding a scooter the wrong way at 37th and Main streets in Kansas City.
In both shootings, Michael claimed she shot the suspect only after the person took her stun gun away and used it on her.
This time, investigators cast doubt on that claim, leading to the charges.
On hearing that news, Sneed’s family spoke out Wednesday, calling for Baker to reopen their case and file additional charges against Michael.
Baker’s office said Thursday that prosecutors will look at the case again.
“Because there are similarities to the 2017 shooting, we thought it would be best to look at it again,” said Michael Mansur, a spokesman for Baker.
In charging documents, prosecutors questioned Michael’s story that the victim in the Aug. 8 shooting in Midtown, Brittany Simeck, used her stun gun against her.
Prosecutors allege Michael shot Simeck several times in the back and buttocks as the woman tried run away.
Court documents said there was no proof that Simeck was armed or had used the stun gun on Michael.
Both cartridges from the stun gun were found to have been used within a three-second time span, which did not leave enough time for a physical altercation, prosecutors allege.
Immediately after the shooting, Michael spoke to a supervisor and compared it with the 2017 shooting of Sneed, saying “I am not as comfortable with this one as the last one,” according to court documents.
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