This started out to be a column about the blessing concealed carry holders are to their communities. I’d been holding on to a story for a bit over a month and figured I’d use it when a bit more of the fall out was known. It’s not going to be that story now.
Originally this was a story about how two concealed carry citizens in the little Missouri town of Pleasant Hill Missouri stopped a mass shooting event at two victims which resulted in one death and one severe injury. After the threat was neutralized, they stayed and rendered aid to the victims of the attack. Mind you, when I say the threat was neutralized, I don’t mean the citizens shot him, I mean when the two concealed carry citizens confronted him, he shot himself. He’s out of the hospital and being held in the jail without bond now, but hasn’t gone to court yet.
Pleasant Hill police commend Good Samaritans for detaining Price Chopper shooter
Allen Prince is a 27 year old man who had been exhibiting signs of some sort of mental illness and aggression for some time. This may have been exacerbated by his use of marijuana and synthetic drugs per speculation by his family. Since he lived with his family so they got to see it up close and personal.
His family had described some of his behavior to the police after an incident in September of last year.
The witness and victim explained Prince’s mental health had been deteriorating over the last few years, causing everyone in the home to be fearful of him, court documents say. The witness explained Prince would often wake in the early morning hours, “yelling non-sensible ideations [and] banging on the walls.”
A family member explained Prince consumes marijuana and “synthetics.” Family members were unaware of any diagnosis of mental illness by a medical professional, court documents say.
So what was the incident that caused the Sheriff’s office to show up last September? Well, Sheriff’s deputy report.
A witness stated Prince told a family member “If she doesn’t shut up, he will blow her ******* head off.” The witness stated this placed the family member in immediate fear causing her to leave the home for her safety, court documents say.
The witness and victim explained Prince’s mental health had been deteriorating over the last few years, causing everyone in the home to be fearful of him, court documents say. The witness explained Prince would often wake in the early morning hours, “yelling non-sensible ideations [and] banging on the walls.”
There is more detail in the linked Sheriff’s report, but it’s only a couple of pages long. But that’s the jist of it. He threatened to kill his sister, and she fled. The whole family was scared of him.
The victim Amy Coon seems to have been just a wonderful person, she was only 45. Family mourns mother killed at Pleasant Hill Price Chopper: ‘Amy is in heaven now’
“My sweet angel,” began a Facebook post by her niece Kenna Brianne, who wrote of how her “Aunt Amy” helped raise her and, for a time, housed her and her dad, Coon’s brother, when Kenna was small, and “supported me all throughout my school years.” “Aunt Amy believed in me and my future,” she wrote. “She truly was a light in this evil and cruel world we live in. I never saw her without a smile on her face. She was a daughter, a mother, grandmother, and friend.
The other victim a 16 year old boy was an employee of the Price Chopper. He had been retrieving carts when Prince shot him in the back. He then fired at Amy who was trying to flee. Another person said Prince fired at him and missed.
In some of the articles listed about the Police chief thanked the two concealed carry citizens that were there that day and saved lives.
But did this need to happen? Did a 45 year old beloved woman need to die? Did a 16 year old boy need to be spending summer in a hospital and rehab? No.
Like Graham Platner being a piece of human garbage were there any warning signs? Yes.
You see, Prince was only able to go out and kill people because Cass County Associate Circuit Judge Jason Howell allowed it.
When the family called law enforcement back in September, they asked for medical intervention.
His parents and sister said when they called police in September, they wanted Prince to be placed on a 72-hour, inpatient psychiatric evaluation.
Instead, he was criminally charged with felony harassment. Eight days after that arrest, court records show Cass County Judge Jason Howell released Prince on his own recognizance.
Actual law enforcement that dealt with Prince realized the danger. A judicial nightmare
The deputy was concerned enough for the family’s safety that he asked for a monetary bond that would ensure his separation.
The $10,000 bond set at Prince’s Oct. 1, 2025, arraignment barred him from possession of firearms or other deadly weapons, and from contact with the victims of his harassment charge in addition to requring him to sign up for electronic location monitoring.
Apparently Judge Howell, processed all this in his brain and came up with, “Naw, he’ll be good. I’ll just tell him no guns and don’t be mean, that’ll do it.” Not even kidding.
At his next court appearance, one week later, Howell released Prince on his own recognizance with the conditions he not possess firearms, not have “harmful contact” with anyone and obey all laws. No protection of the specific victims, no electronic location monitoring and no drug monitoring.
No word if Judge Howell made him pinky swear.
Apparently his new defense attorney didn’t even have to ask!
What will be the consequences for Judge Howell for turning a man loose when law enforcement had urged precautions? Nothing. Too bad Amy, too bad Amy’s family. Too bad Ayden, too bad Ayden’s family.
Which brings me to why this is no longer just a column about two heroic concealed carry citizens stopping what most likely would have been a far higher victim count.
My former co-worker Allie’s murder last week. One of my co-workers texted me last week and asked if I’d heard about Allie. No, what about Allie. She’s dead. How do you know that? Another team member had texted her and now she was texting me. I was promptly sent a link to a Facebook page run by Abby Blabby, Abby is a sleuth…So many of these photos and much of the information comes from Abby Blabby. I give credit where credit is due.
This one is really bad, anyone could have seen this coming.
Allie met her husband online dating. She was a beautiful, caring competent and delightfully sarcastic nurse. I worked with Allie through some change of life events, changes in life for both of us. We weren’t like best of confidants, I worked for a different department, but still ran into each other often, and I certainly had knowledge of some of the bigger events. I think everyone wished Allie all the happiness in the world in her new relationship with her doctor husband. Made total sense, Allie was vivacious, smart, fun loving and brave. She went skydiving on her birthday one year. She married Dr. Andrew Hummel in October of 2023.
Through a couple of people I halfway kept up with Allie after she moved away. Neither of them were prone to gossip, but I got the distinct feeling all was not well. At all.
No, no, all was most assuredly not well.
To be honest, I have no idea when it started. They were only married for a couple of years, not even three.
Here is what I do know. He had a previous arrest for a domestic violence assault in 2022, and it was against Allie.
As you can see, his bond was set at $0 dollars. Well, that ought to make him straighten up and fly right.
A little over a year ago he attacked Allie. Probably not for the first time. One of the interesting things about Abby Blabby’s page, is that it takes comments. Meaning that people that knew Allie can comment on things. It also allows people with information to contact Abby and she shares that as well. Such as screenshots of text message conversations friends had with Allie. Things like this give a pretty good picture of the situation. I say probably not for the first time as neighbors reported Allie mowing the lawn in summer wearing a hoodie, with the hood pulled up and big sunglasses to cover her face. A lady that kept house for them noticed bruises on Allie who explained it away and Doc Hummel then spent 20 minutes telling the housekeeper how he would never lay hands on Allie. She said that was pretty telling. But on 5th July 2025 police from the Woodson Terrace police department were called to the Hilton Hotel. The guests in the room next to Allie and Dr. Andrew heard her screaming for him to get off of her. They called the front desk. I don’t know if the desk called the police or the guest in the next room did, but someone did. They showed up and found Andrew with a cut on his hand, blood on the sheets and Allie hiding in the women’s room in the lobby, beaten. The police report lists Doc Andrew as 6’4” and 295 lbs. Allie was maybe 5’4”, and not a big girl. Allie told them he choked her so many times she couldn’t breath.
The police wrote it up as
Another note from the police report.
And the police officer would be correct. Here is the Police report from St Louis
Strangulation is one of the greatest signs of lethality. If you’ve been strangled, you’re 700% more likely to be murdered by your partner in the next year.
Ever wonder about the physiological effects of strangulation?
On July 5th an arrest warrant was issued. That is here Arrest Warrant
Notable things in it to me, the charges listed in the warrant are the same as listed in the police report. Two felony offenses. But in addition to that,
The bond portion was pretty interesting as well. Bond was set at $150,000.00, cash only, 10% NOT authorized.
Here is a Warrant attachment
It talks about things like his record of previous offenses, they really seem concerned he might not show up for court. He’s ordered to wear an alcohol monitoring ankle bracelet. I knew about the GPS ones, but was unaware of alcohol monitoring ones. My law enforcement buddy assured me that yes there are such things. Other conditions were he get or maintain work. No drugs, no alcohol. It’s like the court really believes old Doc Andrew has an alcohol problem. Possibly his tickets for not wearing his seatbelt led them to that notion.
Friends of Allie’s tried going to the police on her behalf and were told there was nothing they could do unless Allie herself filed a complaint.
Allie was terrified to file a complaint, or leave him as she thought he would kill her. And who among us didn’t learn from Nicole Brown Simpson that you can in fact get away with murder.
But I was curious, so I reached out to a law enforcement friend as asked if I could pick his brain a bit. He graciously agreed, and a tip of my Stetson, my very best one, the Silverbelly to him for his time.
I asked if someone came into to his law enforcement agency concerned about a friend being abused would anyone even write it down? Would there be any kind of paper trail? Actually yes, yes there would. So if at a later date a judge were trying to make an important decision, that information would be available to them.
There are also question the ask a domestic abuse victim to do a short risk assessment.
Now, up front my friend does not work for the Ralls Co. sheriff’s department or the New London police department. But it sounds like it’s not uncommon at all as that report counts as service, so it’s like a productivity number. So while maybe they can’t do anything, there is most likely a record that friends tried to help her, a legal record. That is going to matter later.
In December 2025 Doc Andrew asked the court if he could quit wearing the ankle bracelet that would tell on him if he drank. It was expensive at $10-$15 dollars a day, and since he wasn’t working…wait! What?? Isn’t that one of the conditions of bond? Why, if I check warrant attachment from the 5th of July 2025, employment is a condition. But for mysterious reasons Doc Andrew didn’t want a bracelet that would tell on him.
And the court graciously agreed. Doc Andrew had been a good boy, ok, he’s not working and he’s supposed to be, but he hasn’t drank since he had to wear the alcohol monitoring bracelet.
Also in December comes this video. I’ll make comments, but it’s worth seeing to understand. While it’s not time stamped, there is a Christmas tree in their living room. You have to click the little speaker icon in the lower right corner of the screen to get the sound.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=883044187600192
She almost made it out the door, and he drags her back in as she’s screaming for help, begging for help. He proceeds to choke her again, as she begs please don’t hurt me. Then there are comments from him about “do you wanna f*ck my deal up?”…Because you see he still hadn’t gone to court for his domestic violence attack against her in July. He had plead not guilty in the original but the court date kept getting pushed back. Yes, the police had this video.
And I feel sorry for the dogs, he traumatized everything he touched.
In February Allie applied for a job in a different city. He hadn’t allowed her to work. But Doc Andrew called up some doctor friends of his who helped him get some medication to help with his drinking.
When he had been working co-workers had said he came in and seemed “sick”, or “shaky” you know, like the hung over symptoms. They told higher ups, but he was allowed to work anyway. What you ask did Doc Andrew do? Oh, he’s an anesthesiologist. Someone that is suppose to maintain an airway during surgery, he uses different drugs to paralyze their muscles so they can’t breath so a breathing tube can be inserted and their respirations and oxygen content controlled during the surgery. They know which drugs will paralyze quickly and quickly be metabolized, meaning the traces of them don’t stay in the system for long. They keep the patient under during the surgery and then as it is ending they start bringing them out of it.
So, sadly, Allie decided since he agreed to counseling and was getting help with his drinking, great decision there court of the ankle bracelet, she stayed with him.
Somehow I doubt counseling ever happened.
In March on 2026 Doc Andrew changed his plea from not guilty to guilty because the charges were reduced from two felonies to two misdemeanors. Why? Who knows, but Doc Andrew has him some experience at getting out of these things. The two previous assault charges that were felonies were now magically 4th degree assault misdemeanors. GUILTY PLEA
Judge Jeffery McPherson was appointed on April 4th, 2025 by Governor Mike Kehoe. I’m very curious what criteria Governor Kehoe uses to choose judges and I intend to ask him. Because I’m guessing it’s campaign donations, family relation or name out of a hat.
The two plea bargain charges of 4th degree assault should have carried a year in jail for each of them.
Despite the police report from July of last year where the police clearly stated he was a danger to Allie, despite his previous history of domestic violence against Allie, and there’s a report he committed domestic violence against her in Polk county as well and got that dropped, despite his history of domestic assault against other women, despite the nest camera video showing him choking her only a few months after the police report from St. Louis, despite the courts previous concerns he might not show up for court, Judge Jeffery McPherson said “Ah, that’s too much for this nice guy. We’ll let the two sentences run concurrently. But wait there’s more! I’m going to suspend sentences and he just has to do two years probation time, no jail at all. He can still work on vulnerable unconscious patients because a doctor that we required to wear an alcohol ankle monitoring bracelet isn’t a risk at all. And he won’t beat women anymore, he gave me a pinky swear”. SENTENCING – REDACTED
And so, on June 22nd he was out and about, as in not safely in a jail somewhere. This comes from Abby Blabby.
The evening before she died, the police department received a call at around 7:30 p.m. regarding a truck driving erratically on Highway 61 just outside of Bowling Green. Callers allegedly reported seeing a male driver. The truck rear-ended a semi. Both vehicles pulled over, and the driver of the semi got out to exchange information, at which point the driver of the truck allegedly attempted to run him over while fleeing the scene.
Witnesses obtained the truck’s license plate, and it was traced back to Dr. Hummel. When he and Allie arrived back to their home at around 10:00 p.m., police were waiting for them. To protect him, Allie took the blame and the fall, telling police that she was the one driving, not her husband. She was allegedly charged with DWI, fleeing the scene of an accident, and more. *Edit to original post- Police took her into custody that night but released her shortly afterwards. They allegedly had a strong suspicion she was covering for him.
My guess is Allie got home and said, that’s it, I’m done I’m not covering for you any longer. Why do I think that? Because by that morning she was dead.
Some comments raised questions about how he slept through someone throwing up that violently that it was all over, but you know, when someone is passed out drunk I suppose it would make sense. And as Abby pointed out about the most loving time of his life comment, the video in December of him choking her, yet again, as she begged him not to hurt her. So.
On June 23, 2026, deputies with the Ralls County Sheriff’s Office responded to a medical emergency at a residence to assist emergency medical personnel and the New London Fire Department.
When first responders arrived, they found Allie unresponsive inside the home. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Almost one year after the police report of her being choked. Remember? Strangulation is one of the greatest signs of lethality. If you’ve been strangled, you’re 700% more likely to be murdered by your partner in the next year.
After this people reported to Abby Blabby that Doc Andrew kept a private pharmacy in a mini fridge in his house, including drugs that shouldn’t be there. When I mentioned this tidbit to my law enforcement source there was this long “OOHHhhhhh” with the final h raising a bit. I had this picture of Shimshon’s ears when I open the special Shabbat night treat bag. They slowly rise up, like I think I heard something.
Here’s the thing about doing something to a medical person with medical people friends. He’s an anesthesiologist, he has a private pharmacy of drugs, what did he hit her with? Because he would know what would be metabolized quickly. Did he inject her between the toes? Did he just give her a ton of insulin? And we ALL have a lot of questions. Questions we fear are going to go unanswered because while an autopsy is being done, the man investigating it is Ralls Co. Sheriff Brian Allen. Nothing against Brian Allen, he has been a Hannibal police officer for a long time. But his previous position is school resource officer. I mean I know the news report said he was going to a two week long Sheriffs training but I don’t think that is all that encouraging. He’s up against a doctor that knows how to hide things and has been doing it very successfully for a long time. Not to mention it seems law enforcement in the different counties he’s been in have not exactly been immune to his charms, for whatever reasons. Allie’s death is allegedly being investigated as an overdose.
The next thing that made everyone say “What the actual heck!” was the funeral. Or rather the lack thereof. No funeral, no obituary in the paper, no flowers, no guestbook, no nothing really. This came from a family member and was shared with Abby Blabby’s site. Nothing says “I’m totally innocent” like destroying evidence and having the body cremated ASAP.
According to friends and family, he also chose not to hold a funeral or memorial service. He only allowed the immediate family to have a private viewing.
Her aunt, Leslie Kee, posted on her Facebook, “When the family arrived, they discovered the ‘viewing’ was not a service at all. There was no casket, no flowers, no guest book, no photos, and no celebration of the life Allie had lived. Instead, she was placed in a back room of the crematorium, behind a pulled curtain and pushed to the side. She lay nude in the wooden box in which she would be cremated, covered only by a light blanket. Her body appeared to have come directly from the coroner’s office, with no effort made to dress her in her favorite clothing, restore color to her pale skin and cracked lips, or arrange her hair beyond what remained after she had been cleaned. There was no trace of the beautiful, vibrant Allie her family loved—only a cold, broken shell. Was this all she was worth to her husband? Did she not deserve spoken words, flowers, and a gathering where friends and family could mourn together and share memories of her life? Was a wooden box pushed into a corner truly all he believed she deserved?” 😢
Someone else mentioned during the viewing time for the family he contacted a family member saying to spare them having to clean out Allie’s things he was bringing them. He left 3 suitcases and a couple of boxes in the parking lot while they were inside. I think I’ve got it correct, 3 suitcases, couple of boxes. That’s it from her life. Boy howdy nothing says deep love and devotion like that. I mean, it was one of the most loving times of his life, right?
I do have questions for Governor Kehoe….if I get answers, I will share them.
But here’s the thing, two judges, different counties, but both involved domestic violence. There was plenty of evidence there neither man should have been out walking around. The law enforcement officers in both cases has listed they were a threat to the family members or others and these arrogant judges that think they know more than the people on the street dealing with these offenders every day and just totally ignored the valuable insight and information they were given and turned them loose.
There needs to be justice for judges. I can think of lots of creative things. For example, the second criminal you set free that goes out and causes harm, the judge serves time as well. There was plenty of evidence in both cases, but especially Allie’s that this man was a risk. And not just to Allie, innocent vulnerable patients that can’t stand up for themselves because they are unconscious are still at risk because of Judge McPherson. Allie thought he was going into work hung over. You let lose a criminal that goes out to re-offend and there was clear evidence, you’re off the bench until you repeat a remedial class in whatever it was you clearly didn’t understand. For example
Apparently Judge McPherson didn’t know or didn’t care as there were more than one documented cases of it. The lives of women apparently don’t matter much to some of these judges, heck some judges don’t even know what a woman is. This needs to change.
While there was no funeral, there was a candlelight vigil for Allie and some took photos of the balloon release. Her spirit may be free, but her life deserves justice.
I sent Governor Kehoe the basic background and asked him three questions.
1) Are you considering replacing Judge Jeffery McPherson who seems to take a very foolhardy approach to his job. Missouri residents and certainly domestic abuse victims deserve better. How did you come to choose him initially?
2) If you are intent on keeping Judge McPherson would you consider sending him to a domestic violence awareness class as he obviously lacks something be it morals or knowledge so this doesn’t happen again.
3) The new current Sheriff in Ralls county is a school resource officer. Nothing against him, but he is up against a doctor who’s specialty is what drugs cause a person to stop breathing so they can be intubated and how long before those drugs are metabolized. Since you appointed the McPherson, would you consider appointing a special investigator from the Missouri Highway Patrol who is not subject to local pressures?
If you or someone you know is in an abusive relationship, please, urge them not to wait. It’s not going to get better. And if they’re going to really get help and get better they can do it with you safely some place else. If you have concerns about a friend being abused, talk to law enforcement. Maybe they can’t DO anything, but if they take a report there will be a record there for a judge to look at to have a clearer picture of the situation. And if there were real judges, that would matter.
Please, don’t wait and think there is more time. I’ve seen text messages where Allie was replying to friends begging her to leave. She said she’d know when it was time. She didn’t. We always seem to think we have more time, we don’t always.
