SUGAR CREEK, Mo. (KCTV) - As Austin Marshall described what happened on Sept. 20, his mother-in-law, Joni Gentry, began to tear up. Her daughter, Ally Marshall, almost died after a man in Sugar Creek fired at her car and hit an artery in her hip. She survived, but the baby boy she was expecting in February died the next day.

“I want to make sure that there’s justice, you know, not only for Ally, but for the life he took,” Gentry said. “Because he did take a life.”

WHAT HAPPENED

At about 4:40 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, Ally and Austin were driving east on Kentucky Road towards Sterling Avenue when a man fired into their car. Ally was driving. Austin was in the passenger seat. Austin heard three pops and looked up from his phone to see the man standing across the street.

“Those first thr

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