Loyal Hayes charged after Hooker brothers found dead in shopping cart

**Hellsbells** · May 28th, 2010, 10:58 AM

Kansas City police are investigating the deaths of two men whose bodies were found Thursday night in a grocery cart behind a home.

At 6 p.m., the TIPS Hotline received a call from a passer-by saying the bodies were near a house at 45th Street and Askew Avenue.

Police were not calling the case a homicide until they could determine what killed the men, according to Kansas City Police Capt. Richard Lockhart.

Family members at the scene suspected that the bodies belonged to two brothers whose car was found burned with bullet holes at 55th Street and Oakley Avenue, according to their cousin, Tonya Hooker.

She said the brothers had been missing since Tuesday.
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/27...ping-cart.html

**sodom** · May 28th, 2010, 11:17 AM

Shit!Sounds like my buddy Goathead is at it again!

**Valasca** · May 28th, 2010, 11:29 AM

Er... in a shopping cart? How did the killer(s) fit them in there?

**sodom** · May 28th, 2010, 11:42 AM

In grocery bags silly!That's how i'd stick a few stiffs in the cart anyway!

**Valasca** · May 28th, 2010, 12:00 PM

Oh, grocery bags. Of course. I'm guessing plastic, then...

**sodom** · May 28th, 2010, 12:07 PM

Haaa!Righto,those paper bags leave a trail.With plastic,you can roll your cart all over the place.

**Hellsbells** · May 28th, 2010, 07:04 PM

Police identify two men found dead in shopping cart

Two homicide victims found Thursday in a shopping cart behind an abandoned house were brothers reported missing earlier in the day.

Kansas City police identified the men as John L. Hooker, 21, and Joseph L. Hooker, 18.

Joseph (left) and John Hooker

Two homicide victims found Thursday in a shopping cart behind an abandoned house were brothers reported missing earlier in the day.

Kansas City police identified the men as John L. Hooker, 21, and Joseph L. Hooker, 18.

Family members said the brothers had been missing since Tuesday and their car was found abandoned, burned and bullet-riddled near 55th Street and Oakley Avenue.

At 6 p.m. Thursday, the TIPS Hotline received a call from a passer-by saying the bodies were wrapped in plastic bags and heaped in a shopping cart behind a house at the corner of 45th Street and Askew Avenue.

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/28...onnection.html

**McDanel** · May 28th, 2010, 09:42 PM

Yup, plastic...

**Hellsbells** · May 29th, 2010, 09:10 PM

A Kansas City man faces murder charges in the deaths of two men. The Jackson County Prosecutor's Office charged 23-year-old Loyal Hayes with 2 counts of murder and 2 counts of armed criminal action in the deaths of brothers John and Joseph Hooker.

The two were found dead near a house near 45th and Askew on Thursday night.

http://www.fox4kc.com/news/wdaf-loya...0,564683.story

**Dakota Valkyrie** · August 17th, 2012, 06:48 PM

A 25-year-old Kansas City man was sentenced Friday to 23 years in prison for the 2010 killings of two brothers whose bodies were found in an abandoned shopping cart.

Loyal R. Hayes was sentenced in Jackson County Circuit Court, where he pleaded guilty in May to charges of second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the deaths of Joseph Hooker, 21, and John Hooker, 19.

The bodies of the brothers, wrapped in plastic trash bags and duct tape, were discovered in May 2010 in a vacant lot near 45th Street and Askew Avenue.

Police investigators followed a trail of blood back to a nearby residence in the 4500 block of Monroe Avenue where a relative of Hayes lived. Inside they found similar trash bags and duct tape, shell casings and blood.

Lonell Hayes, the brother of Loyal Hayes, was previously sentenced to three years of probation for burning a car that belonged to one of the victims.

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/17...-23-years.html

**Aena** · August 17th, 2012, 08:07 PM

23 years for TWO murders? Kind of a light sentence there...

**spifftastic** · August 18th, 2012, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by Aena

23 years for TWO murders? Kind of a light sentence there...

For sure, it makes me think that the brothers who were murdered were involved in some shady shit themselves. I wonder if it was gang or drug related, I feel like that sometimes lessens the sentence.

**CbabyRKO** · August 20th, 2012, 10:20 AM

Not to speak ill of the dead but...the brothers didn't exactly look like upstanding members of society lol. Sorry I know bad me to judge them by their photos but cmon man look at them... ok im done.