New charges filed against former Moberly man for KC shootings

Two new charges have been filed against a 27-year-old man accused in a series of shooting incidents along Kansas City-area highways.

Mohammed P. Whitaker of Grandview, formerly a Moberly resident, was charged in April with 18 felony counts stemming from highway shootings that started in early March, injuring three people. He’s being held on $1 million bond.

The Jackson County prosecutors said Friday that a grand jury indicted Whitaker on 20 charges, which are the original 18 plus two new charges stemming from a March 18 shooting on Interstate 70 in Blue Springs. The prosecutor’s office says in that incident, a bullet pierced a car door and hit the driver in the leg.

The new charges are unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action.