INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — A lawyer representing the family of Maria Pike and her infant Destinii Hope filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court. The petition claimed the events ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson will not file charges against the officer involved in the death of an Independence woman and her child. Maria Pike died in her boyfriend’s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Family members of an Independence woman and her infant fatally shot by police in November have filed a lawsuit against the two ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The family of Maria Pike, a woman who was killed in an Independence police shooting last November alongside her ...
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV) - On Thursday, July 17, 2025, a civil wrongful death lawsuit was filed against two Independence Officers involved in the fatal shooting of Maria Pike and her 2-month-old ...
Independence police chief Adam Dustman announced an internal investigation into a November police shooting that killed a mother and her baby, while applauding the officer who fired the bullets.
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — Nina Book, Maria Pike’s ...
A lawsuit filed Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court says two Independence police officers acted with malice and were reckless when they killed Maria Pike, 34 and her two-month-old baby Destinii ...