Quintavius Giles, 24, has been charged with first degree assault and armed criminal action for shooting another man in the neck in the 300 block of East Street in Parkville on Sunday, July 19.
Giles is being held in the Platte County Detention Center on a $75,000 cash-only bond. He was scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday, July 28. During an appearance late last week, Giles asked for a bond reduction and said he would seek private counsel.
When deputies arrived at the scene on early Sunday they applied pressure to the neck wound of the victim. When the victim began losing consciousness they helped him into an ambulance and he was transported to North Kansas City Hospital.
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A witness was then contacted who told deputies that Giles was with his girlfriend, who is a prostitute, at the victim’s house. Giles and the victim began to argue in the kitchen and Giles pulled out a gun and worked the action, then punched the victim, who punched him back.
Giles then opened fire with the handgun and the victim was hit in the left frontal part of his neck and also in his shoulder.
Giles and his girlfriend left the scene in a grey, four-door vehicle.
The victim later told police he had heard a knock on the door and saw it was Giles who then asked him if he had been talking derogatorily about his girlfriend. Then the punching and shooting ensued.
His girlfriend told police that she and Giles were taking some beer over to the victim’s house when she saw “Quint” loading a black handgun on the porch. She said that Giles pushed her out of the way and she heard the fighting and the shots fired.
She told deputies she knew Giles from when he was homeless and she let him stay with her and that she was his girlfriend. She positively identified a photo of Giles as the shooter.
When police interviewed Giles he said he and the victim had been arguing for about two years. He said the victim had repeatedly tried to pay his girlfriend for sex with himself and friends. Giles claims that he and his girlfriend were leaving a residence near the victim’s house and they saw him sitting on his deck. They went upstairs and Giles asked the victim to go downstairs and fight him. The victim picked up a bottle and told Giles he knew Giles had his Glock with him, which Giles admitted, but he told the victim he was going to take the clip out so he knew he wasn’t going to harm him.
Giles said when he took the clip out it was fully loaded with one bullet in the chamber. It fell on the floor and when this happened the victim hit him in the head with the bottle and the gun went off. Giles said he left his gun at the scene.
Giles and his girlfriend left the scene and spent the night at a motel.
On July 21 Giles’ girlfriend told police that Giles had called from the Platte County Detention Center and told her that his gun was inside a blue cooler in their bedroom closet and advised she take it to the police department. The handgun had one live round of ammunition in it.