Blake Bowman’s mother disputes police account of son’s death

Kansas City police say Blake Bowman was shot and killed by a police sniper while allegedly holding his mother hostage at knife-point on February 18.

But Bowman’s mother, Marsha Sauber, told the Kansas City Call a different story.

Sauber told the reporter Eric L. Wesson that her son had dropped the knife and agreed to surrender to police.

Sauber said Bowman, 18, was walking out the door of her home in the 10900 block of East

51st Street when he was fatally shot.