While accounts vary on how many shots were fired, an affidavit for warrant application released by Riley County District Court Wednesday morning in a voluntary manslaughter case indicates the victim was shot in the center of the forehead. Casey Lindley, 27, of Ogden later died from the early March 10th shooting near Ogden, with Tierre Wall, 26, of Fort Riley arrested in Georgia a couple days later.
The affidavit provides a detailed account of law enforcement and emergency personnell responding to Skyway Drive and K-114 Highway, to find Lindley being tended to by an unidentified woman, with an open wound in the center of his forehead.
Witness accounts reveal Lindley’s fiancee went to Auth-Florence, also known as Florence Manufacturing, on Corporate Drive to pick him and her roommates up from work. A road rage incident apparently occurred on the way home, with Lindley and at least three others eventually stopping and exiting the vehicle and approaching the other vehicle involved, driven by Wall. It was then noticed Wall had a gun, with a witness reporting Lindley told Wall several times to put the gun down. Lindley reportedly swatted at the gun at one point when it was pointed at him, and one witness says Wall fired the gun three times, with the second shot striking Lindley. An individual in Wall’s vehicle indicated he heard one shot go off in the general direction of Wall, but said he was unaware of anyone actually being shot before they sped off toward Junction City.
Lindley was later transported by Lifestar from Mercy Regional Health Center to Stormont Vail in Topeka where he was pronounced dead.
There are also reports from Wall’s family members of him asking for help getting to his truck elsewhere and to the ATM to get cash out less than two hours after the shooting.
