ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) – A Missouri man is speaking out after his grandmother was shot and killed in front of him during a car-related dispute with a neighbor.
What started as a routine trip to the corner store and back ended in tragedy Tuesday night when 55-year-old Shirley Johnson was fatally shot in front of her St. Louis home, according to her grandson, Markel McCurry.
“Her getting hit was like… it shouldn’t happen,” McCurry said.
He says he was dropping his grandmother off about 9 p.m. when her neighbor, 32-year-old Jamal Jones, claims he saw McCurry back into his car. That’s when St. Louis Metropolitan police say Jones fired a shot…