Austin Smith
ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Tiara Bonner called her actions “inexcusable” in the early morning of Oct. 9, 2022. “I’ve been sorry from the moment I walked away from that traumatic scene, and I knew I would be sorry for the rest of my life,” she said A six-man, six-woman jury from St. Charles County deliberated…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Mary Wilson wanted jurors to know her son wasn’t just a name on a marble slab in the cemetery. Tracy Wilson wanted them to know her husband was the closest to a perfect human being she’s ever known. Taylor Wilson said she and her father were “like peanut butter and jelly.”…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Assistant Attorney General Corie Geary told a jury of six men and six women that Tiara Bonner was “looking for a fight” in the early-morning hours of Oct. 9, 2022. “Nobody is going to f**k with my family!” Geary shouted at the jury, repeating a statement she said Bonner made that…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Kaelin Rickey admitted during her testimony on Thursday that she kicked Dusty Wilson as he laid motionless on Main Street during the early morning hours of Oct. 9, 2022. Where she kicked Wilson remains unclear, depending on which version of the many times she’s talked about that night. Three witnesses testified…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — A former medical examiner for the city of St. Louis told a jury of six men and six women that he “fundamentally agreed” with the cause of death reported by the Boone County pathologist who recently completed an autopsy on Dusty Wilson. However, he disagreed with the report from a neuropathologist now living…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Watching the body camera video from Allison Hamm, an officer with the Hannibal Police Department, as she attended to a lifeless Dusty Wilson on the morning of Oct. 9, 2022, brought tears to the eyes of many members of Wilson’s family Wednesday afternoon in a St. Charles County Courthouse courtroom. It…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Karli Rickey said she went to Rumor Has It Bar and Grill on Hannibal’s Main Street in the early morning hours of Oct. 9, 2022, to pick up a bag of clothes from her sister, Kaelin. Moments later, Karli saw Dusty Wilson die in the street just 10 feet away as…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Marion County Prosecuting Attorney Luke Bryant told jurors during his opening statement in the Tiara Bonner trial that a confrontation outside Rumor Has It Bar and Grill in Hannibal during the early morning hours of Oct. 9, 2022, was anything but a typical bar fight. “There is nothing normal about four…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — Two men who had spent all day with Dusty Wilson and tried to prevent him from getting into a fight couldn’t definitively say they saw Tiara Bonner slap Wilson outside Rumor Has It Bar and Grill in Hannibal on the morning of Oct. 9, 2022. A woman who said she “saw…
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. — A jury of six men and six women was selected Monday afternoon for the trial of a Hannibal woman facing first-degree assault and second-degree murder charges after her alleged involvement in an October 2022 bar fight. Opening statements are scheduled to begin Tuesday morning. The trial is expected to last five…
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HANNIBAL, Mo. — The trial for a Hannibal woman facing first-degree assault and second-degree murder charges after an October 2022 bar fight was scheduled to begin next month, but a judge now has moved it to June. Tiara Bonner, 28, appeared Tuesday, Oct. 31 by video conference with Public Defender Austin Smith and Marion County…
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QUINCY — A Palmyra man facing charges of first-degree murder in September 2021 received a 25-year sentence after entering an Alford plea on Thursday morning to an amended charge of voluntary manslaughter. Raymond D. Gum, 36, appeared in Shelby County Circuit Court with public defender Austin Smith during a hearing before Judge Frederick Tucker. Gum…
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SHELBYVILLE, Mo. — A trial for a Palmyra man facing charges of first-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful possession of a firearm has been set for July. Raymond D. Gum, 35, appeared in Shelby County Circuit Court with public defender Austin Smith on Thursday morning during a brief hearing before Judge Frederick Tucker. A…
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