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“Not a Social Person” is an episode of See No Evil that will be aired on ID on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, at 9 p.m. ET. The episode will follow the murder of a young Independence mother, Whitney Gray, who was killed in a road rage incident in 2016.
22-year-old Whitney Gray was a mother of two when she was driving a minitruck and got into a road rage incident that ended in her death. She was shot and killed in front of her children, who were three years and six months old. Authorities who reached the location said that a man in a white SUV shot Gray once. She was driving a minivan, and her 16-year-old niece was in the vehicle when the shooting happened, ABC 7 reported.
Independence police officers reportedly responded to the shooting in the 1600 block in Sterling on October 16, 2016, at 7:40 p.m. Whitney Gray was driving on Winner Road and was shot in the chest. The killer allegedly shot her from a moving vehicle while numerous witnesses were watching, according to the Jackson County Prosecutor. The white SUV was closely following Gray’s minivan and tried to overtake her, almost causing a crash.
When the paramedics and the fire crew made it to the crime scene, Whitney Gray reportedly had no pulse. According to Whitney Gray’s father, her children have been in her parents’ care ever since her death, Times Record reported. Witnesses at the court testified that there was an exchange of words between Gray’s niece, who was in the front passenger seat, and Taylor before she threw a cup of liquid at his SUV.
Who was convicted of Whitney Gray’s murder?
In June 2018, a Jackson County Grand Jury found Christopher Taylor guilty of first-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action. According to Fox 4, Gray’s niece threw a drink at Taylor’s car, which triggered the incident of road rage. A little while after Whitney Gray’s death, Christopher Taylor was found in South Dakota. He was then arrested by the police and charged with second-degree murder.
The police recovered surveillance footage that revealed the white SUV that headed north after the shooting. The car was found to be owned by a 39-year-old Christopher Taylor. His family claimed he packed his belongings and left home. He also did not show up for work on Monday, which was the day after the murder. He was caught with the help of a car dealer who tracked down Taylor’s white Sequoia to a hotel in Box Elder, South Dakota.
Times Record reported that Taylor threw the murder weapon in the Missouri River in South Dakota and went to a hotel in Rapid City. He also claimed that he intended to get back and turn himself into the police the next day after he stayed at the hotel that night.
Christopher Taylor was reportedly sentenced to 17 years in state prison. He was sentenced to seven years for involuntary manslaughter of Whitney Gray and 17 years for armed criminal action. The sentences would be served concurrently, Times Record reported.
“Not a Social Person” will be aired on ID on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, at 9 p.m. ET.
