Iowa woman charged in JC shooting case

An Iowa woman charged in connection with the shooting of a Jefferson City man in October 2016 pleaded guilty to an amended charge and was placed on five years of supervised probation.

Karmen Hines, 27, had been charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action.

In September, another Iowa woman, Daeqwan Smith, 22, pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action in connection with this case and was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Jefferson City police said the mother of Hines and Smith got into a phone argument with a Jefferson City woman over an outstanding $15 balance from a previous cellphone transaction. The mother and her daughters went to the woman's apartment in the 800 block of Monroe Street, and the male victim began arguing with the two younger women.

A short time later, he was shot in the abdomen. One of the witnesses told police Smith pulled out a handgun from her jacket and shot the man. Smith and Hines then fled the scene - leaving their mother in the apartment - and later were stopped by the Missouri Highway Patrol in Schuyler County, near the Missouri/Iowa border.

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