Woman facing several charges after shot in Scott City

SCOTT CITY, Mo. (KBSI) – A woman faces several charges after police responded to a report of a woman with a gunshot wound in Scott City.

Megan A. Heffner is charged with two counts of assault 1st degree, armed criminal action, unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful use of a weapon and stealing.

Scott City Police officers responded to a report of a woman with a gunshot wound on Sunday, October 8.

Officers found Heffner with an apparent gunshot wound. Officers secured the scene and began to render first aid.

Officers determined that Heffner discharged a firearm and threatened two people, according to Scott City police.

One of the people was armed and tried to disarm the Heffner. While struggling over her weapon, a weapon discharged and Heffner was struck, according to Scott City police.

She was taken to a local hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

Heffner is being held in the Scott County Jail on a no bond warrant.

The Scott City Police Department and Scott City E-911 center used new technology to help with the investigation. Initially, E-911 received a cell phone ping on Rapid SOS, displaying a 911 call was made and giving the caller’s GPS location. Communications was unable to speak with the caller initially, due to the caller’s location and lack of cell phone service. So, a Prepared Live link was sent via text message. This link allows the caller to live stream an incident directly to the communications officer. Once received, communications officers created an incident and began to try to gather more information. A police officer on patrol noticed the incident was opened through the use of a mobile (in car) data terminal and began working toward the cell phone ping before the call was dispatched. This allowed the officer to quickly respond to the call once dispatched. From the time of the call was dispatched to the first officer on scene was about two minutes.