Man who duct-taped his girlfriend's head and zip-tied her hands said he needed to 'get himself together' when cops asked him about it: Police

A antheral successful Missouri described arsenic "jealous" and "controlling" allegedly bound his girlfriend's hands and feet, enactment duct portion astir her rima and head, and killed her.

Ramello Robinson-Parks has been charged with first-degree murder, equipped transgression action, and unlawful possession of a firearm, the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office announced.

The unfortunate was identified by Kansas City NBC affiliate KSHB arsenic 26-year-old Elaysha Gilliam. The suspect's property is unclear.

According to a connection of probable cause, a stateless mates who lived successful the country of Oakley Avenue and East 36th Terrace successful Kansas City, Missouri, said they were walking done a adjacent tract connected Feb. 19, 2024, erstwhile they came crossed a body. They "recalled proceeding a pistillate shriek and gunshots" 2 nights earlier.

Officers with the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department were called to the country "in respect to a dormant body." They arrived to find a pistillate who had suffered trauma "in an overgrown vacant lot."

The unfortunate — Gilliam — was pronounced dead. Her origin of decease was aboriginal determined to beryllium aggregate gunshot wounds with the mode being homicide.

Her hands and feet were zip-tied, she had "duct portion implicit her rima and wrapped astir her head, and aggregate gunshot wounds to her head, neck, torso, arm, and buttocks," authorities said. Eight .40 caliber ammunition casings were besides recovered successful the area.

As constabulary investigated, they learned that Gilliam near location connected Feb. 17, 2024, conscionable aft midnight "to conscionable her boyfriend," Robinson-Parks. The heavy redacted tribunal papers stated that a witnesser who knew Gilliam described the fishy arsenic "abusive, recounting anterior incidents wherever helium physically assaulted" idiosyncratic and caused her to suffer a duplicate pregnancy.

Another idiosyncratic cited successful the connection of probable origin described Robinson-Parks arsenic "always jealous, insecure, and controlling." Detectives learned that Gilliam and Robinson-Parks had dated for astir 7 years but broke up astir 8 months earlier she was recovered dead. On Feb. 10, 2024, they went to Las Vegas unneurotic and returned location six days later.

On March 5, 2024, astir 2 weeks aft Gilliam's assemblage was found, detectives accidental they spoke with Robinson-Parks, and helium told them that Gilliam sometimes "disappeared for days aft arguments." He aboriginal reportedly "refused to elaborate" connected their discussions, saying helium needed to "get himself together" earlier talking.

During Gilliam's autopsy, authorities recovered that Robinson-Parks was allegedly "a contributor of DNA connected a swab collected" from a portion of a "latex medical-type glove" from the victim's hair.

Robinson-Parks was arrested connected May 16, 2026. Authorities noted that helium is simply a convicted felon successful Missouri for involuntary second-degree manslaughter and leaving the country of an mishap that caused carnal injury.

The Jackson County Prosecutor's Office said Robinson-Parks is successful national custody for a abstracted lawsuit and that helium volition beryllium transferred into Jackson County custody astatine a aboriginal time.

His enslaved has been acceptable astatine $100,000 currency only.