INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — An Independence man has been convicted in a deadly October 2014 shooting.
The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/2cY9BCF ) reports that 43-year-old Melvin McCaslin was found guilty Wednesday of voluntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the death of Samuel Hewitt, also of Independence.
Court documents say the men fought before McCaslin shot Hewitt in the head while he was “unresponsive” on the ...