Kansas City man, 20, is sentenced to 26 years in prison over PCP-fueled shotgun spree that killed a Christian missionary father of four from China and wounded two others
A Kansas City man was sentenced to 26 years in prison for killing a Christian missionary from China - a married father of four - and wounding two others while high on PCP.
Curtrail Hudson, 20, was sentenced Thursday in Jackson County Circuit Court, the Kansas City Star reported.
A jury found Hudson guilty in February of second-degree murder and five other charges in the August 2018 shooting spree that spanned two blocks and killed 38-year-old Xindong Hao.
Curtrail Hudson, 20, went on a PCP-fueled shooting spree in South Kansas City on August 1, 2018, when he was 18. He injured two men and killed a third, a missionary from China who was married with four children
Xindong Hao, 38, had arrived in Kansas City with his family on July 30. Two days later, he was talking on the phone on the street where he was staying when shouts of warning echoed. A friend said his English might not have been strong enough to understand them
Hao had arrived in the city with his wife, Laura, and four young children - then 2, 4, 6, and 8 - two days before the shooting to join fellow missionaries at the International House of Prayer, reported the Star.
The evangelical group's headquarters is near the scene of the shooting. Hao had enrolled his children in the center's day camp, a friend said.
On the evening of August 1, 2018, Hudson, then 18, was firing a 12-gauge shotgun randomly at people on Bridge Manor Drive in South Kansas City, Missouri.
He had argued with a man who might have been talking to Hudson's sister, he told police after his arrest.
'I had a shotgun,' Hudson told police, according to court papers. 'They started shooting at me. I shot three times.'
Hao, far right, was fatally shot in the side. His children were 2, 4, 6, and 8 when Hudson killed their missionary father
No one was firing at Hudson, the documents stated.
He saw Hao walking and talking on the phone on the same street, where the missionary was staying.
Shouts of warning echoed, but Hao might not have been proficient enough in English to understand them, a friend told the Star.
Hudson thought he heard Hao say, 'He is right there,' he told police.
The teen approached and shot at him multiple times. He told police that he saw Hao drop to the ground after being shot in the side.
Curtrail Hudson, pictured, was sentenced Thursday to 26 years in prison after being found guilty in February of second-degree murder and five other charges in the 2018 shooting spree that claimed the life of the Chinese missionary
While he was down, Hudson hit Hao more than once with the butt of his shotgun, witnesses said.
The man Hudson had been arguing with was shot in the neck and back. His family took him to the hospital.
A third man came upon the scene while driving his truck. Hudson wheeled his shotgun toward him and shot, grazing the man.
Hudson chased the truck, shooting as he ran, a witness said. He then kicked the shotgun into a storm drain, police said.
The killer did not remember shooting at the driver, he later told police.
Hudson's family drove over to pick him up after getting a call from him.
He got into the vehicle, argued with one relative, and left.
Hudson fell down and the relative held him until police arrived, according to court papers viewed by the Star.
Hudson's defense attorney had argued at trial that Hudson had smoked a marijuana cigarette without knowing it had been dipped in PCP and was 'in a state of psychosis' when the shooting occurred.
In China, Hao, far right, had preached the Gospel in secret, wary of the Communist Party's persecution of certain religions
The shooting claimed the life of a missionary who in China had preached the Gospel in secret, wary of the Communist Party's persecution of certain religions.
Hao liked fishing - but he was more a 'fisher of men,' his friend Tony Petrehn told the Star.
'It's tragic. A father of four young kids pulled away like that,' he said.