Jurors convicted Warren E. Frazier Wednesday night of first-degree murder for killing Danielle J. Gray during an argument over $20 worth of fake crack.
The Kansas City Star reports that Frazier, 56, testified that he killed Gray, 28, in self-defense after confronting her about selling fake crack in an apartment in the 2100 block of East Linwood on February 2, 2009.
Frazer, 56, loaned a friend $10 to buy crack so she could get high one more time before going to rehab, the Star reported.
But Frazier believed the crack was fake, so he and the woman and two
other people who had been burned by fake crack went to complain to the
dealer.
Frazier claimed Gray attacked him, pulled out a gun (which he wrestled away) and choked him. That's when he shot her in the back of the head.
Jurors didn't buy Frazier's story, especially after witnesses reiterated in testimony what they told police back in February.
Witnesses told police that Frazier pulled a gun on Gray, poking her in
the head several times
with the gun's barrel, adding Gray was "in
a fight for her life." That fight ended with Frazier shooting Gray in
the back of the head, witnesses said. She died at a local hospital.
The Star notes that this is the second time that Frazier has
been convicted of first-degree murder. The first came in 1975 for
killing an 18-year-old man. He'd served 17 years for the killing and a
2001 arson.
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