Man charged in case of burned body found in homeless camp
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June 24, 2020
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities have charged a Columbia man with the death of another man whose body was found burned beyond recognition at a Kansas City homeless camp earlier this year.
Mark Salisbury, 41, has been charged with second-degree murder and other counts in the fatal shooting of 31-year-old Derrick Wallace, the Kansas City Star reported.
Police found Wallace's burned body near East Ninth Street and Hardesty Avenue on Feb. 2 and soon determined Wallace had been shot and killed four or five days earlier at a different location.
Salisbury was arrested after he told two people he was involved in killing Wallace, prosecutors said. Court documents say one of two handguns police found in Salisbury's apartment was determined through lab analysis to be the gun used in Wallace's shooting.
Police detectives say Salisbury told investigators he believed Wallace had sexually assaulted one of Salisbury's relatives. Salisbury said he and another person had intended to scare Wallace into leaving the area, detectives recounted, but ended up killing him..
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