Man charged with 10 felonies after allegedly hitting man with gun, having high-speed chase with law enforcement
SEDALIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Sedalia man has been charged with 10 felonies after he allegedly hit another person in the head with a gun and led law enforcement on a high-speed chase on Monday.
Evans Weber, 23, was charged with second-degree assault, four counts of armed criminal action, one count of unlawful use of a weapon, illegal gun possession, tampering with evidence, aggravated fleeing, resisting arrest and unlawful discharge of a gun, a misdemeanor.
A warrant was issued on Tuesday and a $250,000 bond was set. An arraignment was held Wednesday morning.
According to one of the probable cause statements, dispatchers received a call about shots being fired at an AT&T store on West Broadway Boulevard in Sedalia. The statement says several witnesses gave similar accounts of an argument occurring in the parking lot and a man hitting another person in the head with a gun.
A shot was fired as the man hit the other person with the gun, the statement says. That man allegedly then drove away from the scene. Another probable cause statement says that deputies began chasing a white Ford Flex on 32nd Street at Route B. The Ford then eventually started driving the wrong way on Highway 65 while going faster than 102 miles per hour, the statement says.
Weber then drove the Ford the wrong way down 16th Street before crashing it, the statement says. Weber ran away from the vehicle, but law enforcement was able to catch him. He allegedly threw a gun near a dumpster by a LensCrafters building court documents say.
One of the probable cause statements say that Weber told law enforcement that he hit another person in the head with his wallet and took off when he heard a “pop.” Weber denied owning a gun, the statement says.
