Christina Winters, a 36-year-old Black woman known to her loved ones as “Moo Moo,” was remembered by her family as a deeply loving person. Her cousin said that to Christina, no one was just a friend; “everybody was her brother, her sister or her cousin.” A personal care attendant in Kansas City, Missouri, she spent years trying to help her husband, Elliott Nevels, through what her family described as a tumultuous eight-year marriage marked by his struggles with mental health and
substance abuse.
On May 19, 2022, Christina was again trying to get help for Nevels after his behavior grew erratic. According to her family, he had been firing a gun into the air, which prompted her to take him to a state evaluation center. He was released after only a few hours. Christina then decided to drive him to the Kansas City Police Department’s Central Patrol Division station, a place her family said she had turned to for help in the past. Her 4-year-old niece was in the backseat of the car during the drive.
The final attempt to find a peaceful resolution ended in tragedy in the police station parking lot. A cousin later told reporters that Nevels had threatened Christina earlier, saying that if he could not have her, nobody would. Officers inside the station heard gunfire and came outside to find Christina fatally shot inside her vehicle, which had crashed in an adjacent parking lot. Her young niece, who witnessed the shooting, was not physically injured.
Elliott Nevels, who was 34 at the time, was arrested at the scene. He was subsequently charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and endangering the welfare of a child. In the wake of the killing, Christina’s family shared their story, urging others in abusive relationships to take threats seriously and to leave before it is too late.
On December 12, 2025, Elliott Nevels pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and child endangerment in Jackson County Circuit Court. He was sentenced to prison, bringing the case to a legal conclusion in December 2025.
