A 27-year-old black man has been identified as the gunman in a dozen recent highway shootings that have wounded three people in Kansas City

Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said that Mohammed Pedro Whitaker has been charged with 18 felony counts and is being held on $1 million cash bail. Whitaker has been charged with two counts of shooting into a motor vehicle and injuring a person, seven counts of shooting into a motor vehicle and nine counts of armed criminal action.