According to the indictment, Mark McCloskey walked out of his house with an AR-15-style rifle and Patricia McCloskey held a semiautomatic pistol. The confrontation was captured on cellphone video and photos. It attracted a lot of attention, making the couple heroes and villains. There were no shots fired and nobody was hurt.Richard Callahan, a special prosecutor, stated that his investigation found that the protesters were peaceful.Callahan stated that there was no evidence that any of them owned a weapon, and no one they interviewed knew they had entered a private enclave. This statement was made in a news release following the McCloskeys' guilty plea.After the plea hearing, Mark McCloskey, who had announced that he would be running for a U.S. Senate position in Missouri in May, was unapologetic.From downtown St. Louis, he stated that he would do it again. If the mob comes to me, I'll do my best to make them fearful of my physical injury. That is what saved my house and my family from being destroyed.The McCloskeys were not subject to any criminal charges and they did not lose their law licenses.A grand jury indicted the McCloskeys in October on felony charges for unlawful use of weapon and evidence tampering. Callahan amended the charges later to allow jurors to choose between misdemeanor harassment and the weapons charge.Parsons' legal team has been working on a backlog in clemency requests for several months. Parson has not yet taken any action regarding Kevin Strickland (long-term inmate) who many prosecutors now believe is innocent of the 1978 Kansas City triple murder. Parson could pardon Strickland but he said that he's not sure he is innocent.
