Kiss in gas station parking lot leads to felony weapons charge, documents say

Southeast Missourian

Thursday, May 9, 2024

Adam Childers

A Cape Girardeau man faces felony charges after police say he used a gun to shatter a victim’s driver’s-side car window.

Adam Childers, 37, faces charges of second-degree property damage and unlawful use of a weapon (exhibiting), which is considered a Class E felony.

The victim in the case told police that Childers threatened the victim with the weapon, and proceeded to chase the victim and threaten the victim with the weapon. Because of redactions of the probable-cause statement it is not publicly known whether the victim was male or female.

However, the probable-cause statement, signed by an officer whose name is also redacted, states Childers told police "he observed (redacted) kissing Childers’ (redacted)" outside a gas station" and that person "ran to (redacted) and locked (redacted) in the vehicle." Police say Childers admitted having a gun and breaking a window with it.

Judge Frank Miller issued a $30,000 cash-only bond.

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What the heck is wrong with people?

-- Posted by Robin Slinkard on Wed, May 8, 2024, at 11:23 PM
Redacted….

-- Posted by UFO on Thu, May 9, 2024, at 1:58 AM
If you haven’t figured out,….this writer loves to use the word redacted.

-- Posted by Legend89 on Thu, May 9, 2024, at 6:16 AM
What is the use of wasting space to print a story when pertinent information is “redacted?”

-- Posted by Good old days on Thu, May 9, 2024, at 6:28 AM
A bit off-topic, but the Cape County inmate roster shows 267 inmates this morning - https://www.capecountysheriff.org/roster.php

Depending on the source, stated capacity is 218-225.

"At completion, the enlarged jail will have an estimated 495 beds." https://www.semissourian.com/story/2962103.html

Figure that project needs some hustle-up on the observation that if the LEOs are catchin' 'em, gots to follow-through with someplace to stash them for the duration, whether awaiting disposition of their charges, or serving the FULL intended penalty assessed.

-- Posted by fxpwt on Thu, May 9, 2024, at 7:11 AM
redacted , or , a victim of circumstance..

-- Posted by Diseased*Turtle on Thu, May 9, 2024, at 7:42 AM
Whatever happened to "who, what, where, when and how"? Did anyone here ever go to J school?

-- Posted by The Papa on Thu, May 9, 2024, at 3:26 PM
In the old, old days, we used the police report as a STARTING point, not the last word.

Like George Orwell wrote, "journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations."

-- Posted by Ken Steinhoff on Fri, May 10, 2024, at 2:52 AM
I’ve often wondered why in Cape police report omit the names of the arrested and in Jackson police report the names of the arrested are printed

-- Posted by vintagehale88 on Fri, May 10, 2024, at 7:10 AM
Good Lord Adam, I worked with you for several years. Why in heavens name would you pull out your firearm and break someones window? This is the last thing I would have suspected you would do. Now you are facing a possible felony and for what? Being ignorant and ...well I will redact what I would like to say!

-- Posted by GREYWOLF on Sat, May 11, 2024, at 9:38 AM

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