KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Kansas Metropolis, Mo., lady was sentenced in federal court docket immediately for the armed theft of a pizza supply driver, after a suspect concerned within the theft was killed throughout a shootout with cops.
Rochelle E. David, 24, was sentenced by U.S. District Decide Gary A. Fenner to 14 years in federal jail with out parole.
On April 28, 2022, David pleaded responsible to at least one rely of theft and one rely of utilizing a firearm throughout a criminal offense of violence. Her brother, Samuel M. David, 20, has pleaded responsible to the identical prices and awaits sentencing.
Rochelle David positioned an order for pizza to a Pizza Hut restaurant on Oct. 19, 2020, so as to lure a Pizza Hut worker to her handle to conduct an armed theft with the help of Samuel David and Ennice Ross. When the supply driver arrived at about 10:18 p.m., Samuel David and Ross confronted him within the car parking zone. Ross displayed a firearm in his waistband and Samuel David demanded the motive force’s cash. Samuel David went by way of the motive force’s pockets, taking a pockets and knife from him. In addition they took $100 in money from the motive force’s car.
Ross ordered the supply driver to take them to an ATM to withdraw extra money from the motive force’s checking account. The motive force took them to a gasoline station, the place Samuel David tried to make use of the motive force’s financial institution automotive to withdraw cash from an ATM. Samuel David returned to the automotive and informed Ross he wasn’t capable of withdraw any cash. Samuel David stabbed the motive force within the hand with the motive force’s knife.
Samuel David ordered the supply driver to take them to his residence in Gladstone, Mo., the place he lived along with his mother and father, whereas Rochelle David adopted in a separate car. Samuel David and Ross accompanied the motive force into his residence, the place they encountered the motive force’s mother and father. Ross stayed with the motive force’s mother and father whereas Samuel David walked the motive force to his bed room, the place the motive force opened a protected that contained roughly $2,000. Samuel David took the protected, and he and Ross left the residence.
On Oct. 23, 2020, cops had been conducting surveillance within the space the place the armed robberies occurred in an effort to find Rochelle David in reference to an unrelated murder investigation. She was seen leaving the condominium constructing in a car with Samuel David and Ross. Officers carried out a site visitors cease of the car within the space of Admiral and Tracy. Samuel David and one other individual acquired out of the car, however Rochelle David and Ross stayed within the car. Rochelle David informed Ross that one of many officers who stopped them was the one who just lately chased her. Shortly earlier than she acquired out of the car, she informed Ross, “Shoot the one with the crimson hair first.” Rochelle David then acquired out of the car, after which Ross opened his door and fired on officers along with his gun. The officers returned hearth, which resulted in his dying.
After being arrested, Rochelle David was questioned concerning the murder. She admitted that Ross needed to kill a homeless individual and she or he was with him after they picked up a homeless man in Kansas Metropolis on Oct. 21, 2020. They drove round for a time with the sufferer, then Ross acquired out of the car and she or he noticed him shoot the sufferer.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Lawyer Byron H. Black. It was investigated by the Kansas Metropolis, Mo., Police Division and the FBI.