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Man charged with murder after shooting girlfriend during argument
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and last updated 2021-05-14 18:34:43-04
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â A man is charged with murder for shooting his girlfriend during an argument.
Brandon McDaniel, 26, of Independence, Missouri, is charged in Jackson County with second-degree Murder and armed criminal action in the death of Oriana Starr.
A woman told an Independence Police Department detective McDaniel stayed the night on December 15, 2020, at Starr s apartment, also located in Independence, a court document states.
McDaniel woke the next morning and said he wanted to go to a store for cigarettes and alcohol, according to the court document.
and last updated 2021-01-20 19:16:35-05
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. â Oriana Starr would have been 23 years old on January 19.
Instead, her family gathered outside her apartment in Independence on Tuesday to celebrate without her, just one month after she was found dead in the apartment. Police said she had been shot. This pain right here is unbearable, Starr s mother, Crystal Graves, said. I wouldn t want my worst enemy to feel this pain.
Starr was the baby of her family, the youngest of eight children, and doted on her nieces and nephews. She was the person to light up the room when she smiled, Graves said.