Arrest made in local sports reporters murder, six months after deadly roadside shooting
A Missouri man has been arrested and charged in connection with a Jan.10 road-rage shooting that left a former sports reporter dead.Ruslan Huseynov, 34, is charged with second-degree murder, two counts of armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon in connection with Dennis Sharkey Jr.’s death, according to Platte County records.The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department initially received a 911 call around 7 p.m.
on Jan.10 from a man and his girlfriend, who had been driving behind Huseynov’s and Sharkey’s vehicles on I-29, driving southbound in the right-hand lane.Huseynov’s vehicle was at the front with Sharkey’s directly behind his, and the witnesses behind Sharkey, according to a probable cause statement filed in Platte County.The witnesses described seeing the suspect and victim’s vehicles come to a stop in front of them, forcing them to stop on the interstate, as well, the probable cause statement says.The witnesses then pulled into the middle lane and continued southbound on I-29, but as they were driving by the two stopped cars, they saw the suspect, who appeared to be of “Middle Eastern or Italian” descent, in the first car get out of his vehicle with a gun. “They noticed the man with the gun point it at the victim’s car and then fled the scene.
They heard a gunshot as they continued southbound on I-29 and called 911,” the probable cause statement reads. First responders located the victim’s vehicle crashed into a fence on I-29 with the victim, identified as Sharkey, inside.He had a gunshot wound, and authorities transported him to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:51 p.m.Authorities linked “suspicious” cellphone data from the area of the crash to Huseynov and found bullet casings near the same scene.Police believe, based on cellular tower data records and multiple views of traffic patterns at the time and place of the crime, that Huseynov’s cellphone “was in a vehicle which came to a stop...