KANSAS CITY —A Kansas City-area teen has been charged in the fatal shoting last Thursday, April 20, 2023, of Nehemiah Newton outside a Raytown residence, according to Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker.
Jay'shaun D Jones, 18, faces Murder 2nd Degree, Unlawful Use of a Weapon and two counts of Armed Criminal Action.*
According to court record filed over the weekend, on April 20, 2023, Raytown police were dispatched to a Raytown, MO, address on a reported shots fired call. Officers found the victim, Nehemiah Newton, in the driveway. He was deceased from mutliple gunshot wounds. Witnesses in the area told police they heard people arguing, then rapid gunfire before the victim fell to the ground. Witnesses also saw the defendant struggling with the victim and another man. They struggled over a gun, and the victim gained control of it and began to move away. Then the defendant shot him. The defendant told police he shot the victim as he was moving away but thought he might pivot.