KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A Blue Springs man is facing a murder charge for a fatal shooting Wednesday night in northeast Kansas City.

Arel Dawkins is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action for an Aug. 6 incident that left a woman dead at a home on Morrell Avenue in the Historic Northeast’s Scarritt Point neighborhood.

Eyewitness testimony and surveillance footage from the area showed Dawkins running over the victim with his Ford F-150 before getting out of the vehicle and shooting her multiple times at close range, prosecutors said Friday. The incident happened just before 8 p.m. on Aug. 6.

The victim was identified as 42-year-old Braisen Cain by the Kansas City Missouri Police Department.

Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson alleges Dawkins then walked toward t

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