Accidental or Intentional? Kansas City Man Pleads Guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter in 2023 Shooting
A Kansas City, Missouri man has pled guilty to the April 2023 shooting death of 18-year-old Zameyanna Williams.
Sirtain Wilson, 18, who was 17 years old at the time of the murder, was charged in August 2023 with first-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal activity.
On Monday, Wilson pled guilty to first-degree involuntary manslaughter. The charge of armed criminal action has been dismissed.
According to court filings, Kansas City police officers responded to a reported disturbance on April 8, 2023, shortly after 3:30 a.m., at a home near E. 48th Street and Palmer Avenue. Officers responded to the home’s basement, where they discovered Williams dead of an apparent gunshot wound.
A witness told authorities that the victim and suspect had been in a “toxic” relationship for two years and that she received a call from Wilson just before 3:30 a.m. on April 8, 2023, stating that he had accidentally shot the victim, according to court papers.
After receiving the call, the witness and many family members went to the victim’s location. According to court filings, Wilson informed the witness that the victim had shot herself.
During the interrogation, Wilson submitted a statement claiming that during an altercation with the victim, he grabbed his weapon to put it up and began waving it around yelling when the firearm discharged and struck the victim. “I would never injure her on purpose, and I am deeply sorry. “She never reached for the gun,” Wilson stated in his statement.
Wilson claimed he was aware that the round he shot from his revolver struck the victim in the finger and continued to travel after exiting her finger, according to court filings.
Wilson is set to be sentenced at 9 a.m. on July 9, 2024.
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