More details on the March shooting death of an Ogden man that resulted from a road-rage incident gone wrong were revealed during Friday’s preliminary hearing in Riley County District Court.
Tierre Wall, 26, of Fort Riley, faces a voluntary manslaughter charge for allegedly shooting 27-year-old Casey Lindley in the forehead during a confrontation at the intersection of Skyway Drive and Kansas Highway 114 near Ogden during the early morning hours.
Judge David Stutzman heard testimony from crime scene investigators, Lindley’s fiance, Kristina Harrison, and Wall himself.
Crime scene investigators and first responders confirmed the 9 millimeter bullet casings found in the area of the shooting but the bulk of the hearing dealt with the events that led to the shooting itself.
Harrison tearfully testified that after picking Lindley and his two coworkers at Auth-Florence, also known as Florence Manufacturing, at 2 a.m. following their shift, she was followed in a red pickup by Wall and a passenger from the same parking lot. Harrison said before they’d left the parking lot, her and her company had commented on Wall, who was having difficulty backing his pickup out of a parking space. After that, Harrison said Wall was tailgating her. She said she felt threatened and “brake-checked” Wall several times.
When Harrison’s black Chevrolet Trailblazer was approaching a stop sign at the intersection of Skyway Drive and Kansas Highway 114, she said there was discussion of getting out of the Trailblazer once stopped and confronting the driver of the red pickup — Wall — to ask what the problem was.
From there, things escalated quickly and fatally.
Lindley quickly approached the driver’s side of the red pickup with Harrison not far behind, while Lindley’s coworkers approached Wall’s acquaintance on the passenger side of the vehicle.
Arguments and fighting broke out and Harrison said Lindley was shot in the forehead by Wall after Lindley had tried to block the gun out of his direction.
From there, Harrison went to Lindley’s aid and Wall and his passenger — who was in a fight with Lindley’s co-workers — left the scene. Wall dropped his passenger off, made a stop by an ATM for cash and fled. He was later arrested in Georgia.
Wall’s defense, however, said Wall was acting in self defense and that Lindley provoked the incident.
Stutzman said he’d deliberate on the testimony and return to the case next week.
