KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A 26-year-old Kansas City man was sentenced on Tuesday for the deadly strangulation of Elizabeth Stivers in March of 2023. Darion Hall pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder and was sentenced to 23 years in prison, according to the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office. According to court documents, Kansas City police were called to a home near East 7th Street and Spruce Avenue on March 14, 2023, and found Stivers in the yard suffering from trauma injuries. She later died at the hospital from her injuries. Hours before the homicide, Hall was seen driving a stolen vehicle. It was found abandoned near 7th and Norton, two minutes from Stivers’ residence. Surveillance video also captured Hall involved in a strong-arm robbery at a Walgreens on Independence Avenue. Shortly before the robbery, Hall was seen on video at an Independence Avenue gas station. Video shows him walking into the store and confronting and punching a customer before chasing the customer from the building. Police were not called to take a report. Hall was taken into custody just a few blocks from the homicide scene with blood on his clothing. Court records say he attempted to headbutt an officer after they put him in hand cuffs. A witness saw a man, that was later identified as Hall, near the victim after she was strangled. The witness described Hall’s clothing, which matched the same clothing Hall wore during the attempted robbery. Detectives submitted Hall’s clothing to the crime lab for testing. The lab reported the DNA collected from Hall’s hoodie matched DNA from the victim.
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