Ashley Danielle Roberts was 25 when she was found fatally wounded on the porch of a South Benton Avenue home in Kansas City on March 9, 2018. She suffered a gunshot wound under her right eye.

Neighbors reported hearing an argument in the residence Roberts shared with her boyfriend, Dimitri Tinsley, and their two young daughters, then 8 and 3. A neighbor later saw Tinsley leave the house with the children, shouting that Roberts had shot herself and asking for help before driving away. Tinsley, 26 at the time, told police the gun discharged accidentally while he tried to take it from Roberts.

Investigators say statements and evidence did not support that account. The couple’s 3-year-old told police she saw her father with a gun and that he had choked her mother on the back of the neck before a bullet struck Roberts. Records also note two prior domestic violence incidents in 2013 with Tinsley identified as the primary aggressor. Tinsley was charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, endangering the welfare of a child, and unlawful possession of a firearm; prosecutors requested a $500,000 cash bond. The two children were placed in protective care.

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