Man tricked ex-girlfriend into meeting him on her 21st birthday by promising a present, then shot her over and over

A Missouri antheral volition walk the remainder of his beingness down bars for shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend aft tricking her into gathering him connected her 21st birthday, Show-Me State authorities person announced.

In August, Rasheed Turner, 26, was recovered blameworthy by a Jackson County assemblage connected 1 number each of first-degree murder and equipped transgression enactment for the May 2025 decease of 21-year-old Layla Freeman.

On Wednesday, Jackson County Circuit Judge Adam Caine sentenced the suspect to beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole for the execution conviction. The tribunal besides tacked connected a 15-year condemnation — to beryllium served consecutively — for the equipped transgression enactment conviction.

The sidesplitting happened connected May 13, 2025, adjacent the country of West 37th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue successful Kansas City.

Officers responded to a shooting that nighttime and recovered Freeman suffering from aggregate gunshot wounds. She had been changeable repeatedly and was bleeding retired adjacent a parked Chevrolet Malibu.

The preliminary constabulary probe suggested the unfortunate "had an enactment with 1 oregon much suspects" that resulted successful the fatal shots being fired, according to a constabulary study obtained by Kansas City-based Fox affiliate WDAF.

Turner was arrested connected May 28, 2025.

Witnesses astatine the country did not spot the shooting but heard the gunfire, constabulary said. They besides heard the pistillate screaming. The witnesses besides said that instantly aft the gunfire, a antheral near the Malibu and ran to the driver's broadside of a Ford Mustang.

Using metropolis surveillance cameras, instrumentality enforcement spotted that Mustang and past tracked it to place the defendant. Detectives besides relied connected societal media and substance connection exchanges betwixt Turner and the unfortunate from earlier the unit unfolded.

Police learned that Freeman's day played an indirect relation successful what happened to her that day, WDAF reported.

Freeman's relative told instrumentality enforcement that she had been connected FaceTime with Freeman hours earlier the shooting. During their call, the relative learned the unfortunate and her eventual slayer were readying to meet, according to tribunal documents obtained by the TV station.

Turner had told Freeman helium wanted to conscionable due to the fact that helium had a day contiguous for her, the relative told police. Then, astir an hr and a fractional aft the FaceTime, the relative and Freeman spoke again.

This time, Freeman said she was with Turner, but she was crying and told her relative that she would telephone her back.

That instrumentality telephone was ne'er made.

The slain woman's obituary remembers her successful fond terms:

Layla accepted Christ astatine 16, and her religion guided her beingness of work and love. Whether caring for others professionally oregon lifting spirits with her smile, she radiated bid and grace. Though her clip was brief, her interaction was lasting. Layla's bequest of emotion and religion volition everlastingly beryllium cherished by each who knew her[.]

"Domestic violence-related homicides permission lasting harm connected families and our community," Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson said successful a post connected X (formerly Twitter). "Our bureau works each time to clasp abusers accountable and forestall these tragedies."