A Missouri man has been arrested and charged in reference to a Jan. 10 road-rage taking pictures that left a former sports activities reporter useless.
Ruslan Huseynov, 34, is charged with second-degree homicide, two counts of armed legal motion and illegal use of a weapon in reference to Dennis Sharkey Jr.’s dying, in response to Platte County information.
The Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, Police Division initially obtained a 911 name round 7 p.m. on Jan. 10 from a person and his girlfriend, who had been driving behind Huseynov’s and Sharkey’s autos on I-29, driving southbound within the right-hand lane.
Huseynov’s car was on the entrance with Sharkey’s immediately behind his, and the witnesses behind Sharkey, in response to a possible trigger assertion filed in Platte County.
The witnesses described seeing the suspect and sufferer’s autos come to a cease in entrance of them, forcing them to cease on the interstate, as effectively, the possible trigger assertion says.
The witnesses then pulled into the center lane and continued southbound on I-29, however as they had been driving by the 2 stopped vehicles, they noticed the suspect, who seemed to be of “Middle Eastern or Italian” descent, within the first automotive get out of his car 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 possible trigger assertion reads.
First responders situated the sufferer’s car crashed right into a fence on I-29 with the sufferer, recognized as Sharkey, inside.
He had a gunshot wound, and authorities transported him to a close-by hospital, the place he was pronounced useless at 7:51 p.m.
Authorities linked “suspicious” cellphone information from the realm of the crash to Huseynov and located bullet casings close to the identical scene.
Police imagine, based mostly on mobile tower information information and a number of views of site visitors patterns on the time and place of the crime, that Huseynov’s cellphone “was in a vehicle which came to a stop on the interstate” on the time of Sharkey’s dying, the possible trigger assertion says.
A search warrant executed on Huseynov’s cellphone put him within the Platte County space on the afternoon of Jan. 10 and traced the 34-year-old to a close-by liquor retailer that day.
He was pulled over for a site visitors violation in March and arrested on an unrelated cost in June.
On the time of the June arrest, he offered his cellphone data, and police questioned him concerning the Jan. 10 taking pictures on I-29.
“I confirmed him an image of a hand displaying a 9mm journal which contained 9mm ammunition and which had been found in Huseynov’s iCloud account pursuant
Police then executed a search warrant at Huseynov’s residence and found the 9mm gun, 9mm ammunition and 9mm journal in a secure within the suspect’s bed room. The bullet recovered from Sharkey’s physique and shell casings situated on the scene matched the gadgets recovered from the suspect’s house, police stated.
A GoFundMe for Sharkey, titled “Honor Dennis: Support His Mom in Her Time of Need,” described Sharkey as “not only a beloved son, cousin, and friend, but also a dedicated caretaker to his mother, who is now left to navigate this unimaginable heartbreak.”
An obituary for the 50-year-old sufferer states that he “worked for a variety of news publications in the Missouri and Kansas regions.”
“During his journalistic career he created the Northland Buzz with his friend Cody Snapp and covered sports for the North Kansas City School District from 2022-2024. Most recently, Dennis served as the reporter and photographer for all sports for the Platte County Citizen,” the obituary says.
Sharkey’s “most recent job was at SAS Merchandising as a representative for Tyson’s Foods.”
“Dennis loved sports, particularly the Kansas City Chiefs, Kansas City Royals and the Northwest Missouri State Bearcats. Dennis was very passionate about his relationship with his maternal grandmother Edna, and loved gardening,” the obituary says.
Huseynov is being held within the Platte County Detention Heart with out bond. He didn’t have a protection legal professional listed in public information databases on the time of publication.
