A 48-year-old Kansas City man was stabbed to death Saturday near 23rd Street and Interstate 435. Crime Scene KC says the victim was apparently stabbed in a street fight near the 400 block of East Elm.
The victim died at the hospital from his wounds.
Investigators were seeking 19-year-old Anthony D. Gillen and 18-year-old Christopher M. Vasquez as persons of interest.
Update (3:43 p.m., Monday, March 23): Jackson County prosecutors charged Christopher M. Vasquez today with second-degree murder and armed criminal action. They also charged Anthony D. Gillen with felony theft.
Court records allege that Vasquez stabbed Jon C. Welch once early Saturday morning. Welch drove away from the scene, 325 E. Elm Street, in Independence.
Court records say Welch confronted Vasquez and Anthony D. Gillen, who allegedly stole CDs, an iPod and two laptop computers from his mother, Corenna M. Gray, and Welch. Gray told police that her son called her after the stabbing and said, "How'd the son of a bitch like getting stabbed?"
Gillen told police that he was fighting Welch when Vasquez stabbed Welch with a switchblade. Detectives later interviewed Vasquez who admitted stabbing Welch but said he didn't want to kill him. Vasquez also led police to the location of the knife, which he had hidden at 3901 E. 58th St.
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I love and miss you Chris I am still your loving aunt and can't wait till you get out!!!!! lots of love and prayers go out to you.
i agree with the anonymous blog why didn't she call 911 when she heard them fighting ouotside. if he would have stayed there and let the ambulance come to him instead of moving around and hitting the bumps in the road he probably could have lived. it would have been less blood loss. and she couldn't care for her son all that much to let him get beat by her boyfriend.....it might have been different if that was his dad hitting him......chris don't deserve all the blame either....i think the cahreges he got is a little harash.....
question this one...i dont have any sides on the situation jus a thought to think about....i personally think every party was in the wrong honestly.
1. y was a 48 yr old man on top of a 19 yr old fighting him when from wut all the stories say he was the boys mother's boyfriend.
2. y didnt the mother of the boy stop her boyfriend from hittin her son.
3. if this welch was tryin to resolve the situation y did he wait til 1:45 in the mornin to go over to the residents.
4. y didn't the police get called in the beginnin when the belongins were taken.
5. y did the man try to run into the house violantly if he was tryin to resolve the situation...which i read this on fox 4 news or something like that.
6. y not go strate to the hospital or call the police after the stabbin
7. y try to drive.
8. y do police have there badges if everyone thinks they can handle tha kinda world we live in today??
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