Man with bolt-action rifle shoots and kills grandmother in grocery store parking lot and injures 16-year-old employee retrieving shopping carts, police say

A Missouri antheral is down bars aft sidesplitting a parent and grandma connected Memorial Day during a shooting successful a supermarket parking lot.

Allen Prince, 27, stands accused of 1 number of murder successful the archetypal degree, 2 counts of assault, and 3 counts of equipped transgression action, according to the Cass County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.

The unit that time took the beingness of Amy Coon, 45, and injured a 16-year-old lad who works astatine the market store chain.

The underlying incidental occurred astatine Cosentino's Price Chopper connected Missouri Route 7 — often referred to arsenic MO-7 locally — successful Pleasant Hill, a tiny suburb located immoderate 30 miles southeast of Kansas City.

"Amy's not conscionable a victim," Pleasant Hill Police Chief Tommy Wright said astatine a property conference. "She was a daughter. She was a mother. She was a grandmother, and she was idiosyncratic who cared profoundly for her family, and her household cared profoundly for her."

The teenage victim, who has since been identified by his archetypal name, Ayden, is presently recuperating successful the ICU astatine Children's Mercy Hospital and successful unchangeable condition, according to The Kansas City Star.

"This was his archetypal job," the teen's parent told Kansas City-based CBS affiliate KCTV. "He conscionable started moving determination successful March. I'm hoping that it's not going to traumatize him from wanting to spell backmost to work."

The surviving unfortunate was changeable doubly portion retrieving buying carts from the parking lot, according to a GoFundMe.

Coon hailed from Pleasant Hill and was buying astatine Price Chopper conscionable moments earlier the shooting. She was changeable portion lasting adjacent to her ain conveyance and pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

The slain pistillate was remembered fondly, the Star reports.

"Aunt Amy believed successful maine and my future," her niece wrote successful a Facebook post. "She genuinely was a airy successful this evil and cruel satellite we unrecorded in. I ne'er saw her without a grin connected her face. She was a daughter, a mother, grandmother, and friend."

The shooting began conscionable earlier 4:30 p.m., constabulary said. Soon aft the archetypal fewer shots rang out, 2 equipped citizens began to attack Prince — prompting the suspect to sprout himself successful the caput with a bolt-action Winchester .243-caliber rifle, according to instrumentality enforcement.

"Two gentlemen from the Pleasant Hill area, who were armed, had the courageousness to attack this suspect, who past turned the weapon connected himself," the constabulary main said. "I applaud them. I admit radical similar that being successful our community. This is simply a assemblage that genuinely exists for each different and these 2 men stepped forward… to forestall further violence."

The suspect is presently being treated for his injuries.

The suspect was already successful ineligible occupation astatine the clip of the shooting. He was owed successful tribunal successful Cass County connected June 3, for a proceeding implicit a harassment complaint filed against him successful September 2025, according to tribunal records obtained by section Fox affiliate WDAF.

In that case, a household subordinate alleges Prince told her: "If she doesn't unopen up, helium volition stroke her f— caput off." The witnesser besides claims the suspect often wakes successful the mediate of the nighttime "yelling non-sensible ideations [and] banging connected the walls," tribunal records show.

In that case, Prince was taken into custody without incident, denied making immoderate threats, and said helium was "unsure arsenic to wherefore deputies were contacting him connected this day." In October, helium was released connected a recognizance enslaved with conditions that included not possessing firearms, having nary harmful interaction with anyone, and obeying each laws.

Coon's decease marks the archetypal homicide successful Pleasant Hill successful astatine slightest 20 years.

"This is not an mundane occurrence successful Pleasant Hill," Wright said connected Tuesday. "In fact, it looks similar it's each 20 years oregon so. And we anticipation that we tin adjacent marque that past a small longer this time."