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Charges Filed In Fatal Bartender Shooting

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Channel: KMBC 9 · 2008 · News & Politics

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Authorities have charged a Missouri man with killing a Kansas City, Kan., bartender who refused the suspect service. 


Wyandotte County District Attorney Jerome Gorman on Wednesday charged Brandon Hulett, of Raytown, Mo., with first-degree murder in the early Saturday shooting of bartender Lori Reynolds. 


Hulett is also charged with one count of aggravated battery and 10 counts of aggravated assault. His bond is set at $500,000. 


Reynolds was working at The Gossip Inn when she refused to serve Hulett, who turned 21 a week earlier, because he lacked proper identification. 


Witnesses said Hulett left the bar, then came back and allegedly opened fire, striking Reynolds multiple times and spraying up to eight rounds through the bar. 


No one else was injured. 


Friends and co-workers said Reynolds will be deeply missed.

"Just the sound of her voice, her singing and dancing, that's what is going to be missed around there," bar owner Laura Maude told KMBC. "It's really sad that she's gone. My bar and my friends will not be the same without her."

Neighbors of Hulett said he didn't cause any trouble.

"I don't know too much, I just saw him hanging in the evenings, sometimes when I come home in the afternoons. Besides that, he seemed to be a pretty quiet kid," neighbor Frank Galvez said.

"I'm glad it wasn't just a random thing off the street. I feel like we're feel safer now that he did this on his own," Maude said.

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