KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Jackson County, Missouri, judge sentenced a man with a history of domestic violence to 23 years in prison for the 2023 murder of a woman in a car with the killer's ex-girlfriend.
Dinsmore Baker, 47, pleaded guilty on April 7 to second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful use of a weapon in the June 2023 shooting death of Ryan Bowman.
Police officers found the 42-year-old Bowman in the back seat of a car with a gunshot wound to his head. He died five days later.
The driver of the car, Dinsmore's ex-girlfriend, told police Dinsmore fired a gun into her 2018 Chevrolet Trax at a gas station at 700 East 85th St.
Bowman was sitting in the front passenger seat when he was shot, according to a court document.
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