Man accused of ax attack after Pitch reporter asks about homeless-camp killing
A dark update to one of our stories published this morning: Last week, The Pitch visited a homeless camp along the Missouri River near East Front Street and North Kansas Avenue where Joe Loehr was found dead on September 8.
A person of interest in Loehr’s killing, 56-year-old Mike Gullett, was still living there. Two men were hanging out with him on Thursday and talked to The Pitch about the killing. The Pitch‘s story finished with 47-year-old Gregory Kump passing out drunk on the ground just feet from where Gullett told The Pitch that he thought Loehr might have died.
It turns out that the story didn’t really end there.
That evening, a few hours after The Pitch left the camp, police say Gullett attacked a sleeping Kump with an ax.
