The Platte County Prosecutor’s Office ruled the fatal shooting of a man inside a Platte County house was justified.
The woman who shot and killed Joshua Hinderliter on Sept. 18 will not face charges, according to a news release Friday from the Platte County Prosecutor’s Office.
Hinderliter was shot after he got inside the woman’s home and ran toward her.
“After carefully reviewing the circumstances of this shooting, it is clear that this woman’s use of deadly force was justified,” Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd stated in the news release. “The woman was alone at her home with her four-year-old child. A man rushed toward her and entered her home while she was there alone with her 4-year-old child. It is fortunate she was able to defend herself and her child, and they were not hurt in this terrifying incident.”
Hinderliter, whom the woman did know, was on the woman’s property at about 9 a.m. in the 15000 block of Masonic Drive.
According to Zahnd, the woman saw Hinderliter, whom she did not know on her property.