Court documents detail string of crimes ending in Kansas City woman's murder
31-year-old Elizabeth Stivers was found strangled to death outside of her Northeast Kansas City home last Tuesday evening.
31-year-old Elizabeth Stivers was found strangled to death outside of her Northeast Kansas City home last Tuesday evening.
31-year-old Elizabeth Stivers was found strangled to death outside of her Northeast Kansas City home last Tuesday evening.
New court documents are detailing the string of crimes on Tuesday night that ended with the murder of 31-year-old Elizabeth Stivers.
A probable cause statement says that 24-year-old Darion Hall committed a series of crimes before strangling Stivers to death outside her house in northeast Kansas City.
The reports say it started just before 7 p.m. on March 14 with a call about a stolen truck near Cleveland Avenue. The victim told officers that his grandson, Hall, had taken his truck without permission, according to court documents.
Shortly after, prosecutors say he's on surveillance video at a Phillips 66 on Independence Avenue beating up a customer and chasing them out of the store.
A few blocks away and minutes later, court documents say Hall tried, but failed, to rob a Walgreens – pushing a store clerk and punching the cash register.
"It seems very random. Like, why would you just go and do everything you did that night and then kill an innocent woman who never did anything to you? Just why?” Jamie Brumble, Elizabeth’s cousin, said.
Hall was arrested nine blocks from where Stivers died, and the report says her blood was on his clothes.
"It was extremely senseless. Like I said, she was the sweetest person on the planet,” Brumble said.
Details from the court documents are answering some questions for the Stivers family, but they still do not understand why anyone would want to hurt Elizabeth Stivers. Her family held a candlelight vigil Sunday to honor her life.
"At times, I'm OK. Other times, I'm so upset and screaming,” Thomas Lee Stivers, Elizabeth’s uncle, said. “He needs to be prosecuted, convicted, and sent to prison for the rest of his life.”
"Nothing like this should have ever happened to anyone, especially Elizabeth,” Brumble said. “Justice is the man who did this to her. Being put behind bars. That is justice.”
Court documents say Elizabeth Stiver’s mother was the one who found her body outside of the house on Tuesday night. Her family said she just wants her daughter back.
Prosecutors say Hall is facing three charges — second-degree murder, tampering with a motor vehicle and attempted stealing.
Hall is not in custody. KCPD says there is an active warrant out for his arrest.