By Joe Jarosz
Northeast News
September 9, 2015

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — A Northeast woman has been charged in connection with her son’s death.

According to a press release from Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker, Lisa Marie Hall, 23, has been charged with unlawful use of a weapon, a class D felony; and endangering the welfare of a child, a class C Felony, following the fatal shooting of her son.

According to court records, the child died around 7 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. Witnesses told police the defendant and her boyfriend were drinking and were fighting in a bedroom inside a residence along the 400 block of N. Elmwood Avenue. A gunshot was heard and the mother ran from the bedroom carrying the five-year-old child after he had been shot. No other adults were in the bedroom at the time of the argument and shooting.

The boyfriend told police that he and Hall had purchased a hand gun the day before. Both Hall and her boyfriend first told police someone nicknamed “504” had confronted them in the bedroom when the boy was shot. Later, the boyfriend told police that he and the defendant had been in an argument. Hall was seated on the bed and her son was standing next to the boyfriend, when Hall pulled a handgun from her waist and fired at him. Police found a live 9mm round and a spent bullet in a closet in the bedroom.

Prosecutors have requested a bond of $150,000. The case remains under investigation.