Kansas City man sentenced for January 2023 double homicide
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City man is sentenced for the January 2023 shooting death of his girlfriend and her cousin.
A Jackson County judge sentenced Damon Goodrich on Tuesday, Feb. 21, to 66 years in prison. Thirty years on each second-degree murder conviction and three years on each of two counts of armed criminal action. The judge set all sentences to run consecutively.
A jury convicted Goodrich in a November 2023 trial.
According to court documents, Kansas City, Missouri police officers responded to a shooting just before 1 a.m. on January 8, 2023 in the area of E. 73rd Street and Garfield Avenue.
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When officers arrived on scene they located a man and woman both unresponsive in the front yard. Emergency responders pronounced the man dead at the scene. The woman was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries and died later from her injuries. They were later identified as 35-year-old Tanisha Williams and 46-year-old Charles Martin.
The teenage children of Williams witnesses parts of the incident, according to court records.
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Ring doorbell footage and surveillance cameras supported that Goodrich was at or near the house during the encounter at the victim’s residence.
