Kansas City Deadly First Friday Shooter Sentenced To 18 Years In Jail
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Here s the postscript to a tragedy that destroyed a popular Kansas City tradition long before COVID.
A note from the prosecutor . . .
KC man sentenced to 18 years in prison for fatal shooting at First Friday event in KC
A Jackson County judge sentenced a Kansas City man to 18 years in prison for the fatal shooting in August 2019 of 25-year-old Erin Langhofer, who was standing at food trucks near 18th and Main Street during a First Friday event, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced today.
In May, Deon te Copkney, dob: 1/3/2001, pleaded guilty to Murder 2nd Degree and Armed Criminal Action charges. On Tuesday, the judge sentenced Copkney to 18 years on the Murder 2nd Degree conviction and 3 years on the Armed Criminal Action conviction. The judge set the sentences to run concurrently.
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May 12, 2021 GMT
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A 20-year-old man has pleaded guilty in the death of a Kansas woman who was hit by a bullet during an arts event in Kansas City in 2019.
Deon’te Copkney, of Kansas City, pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the Aug. 3, 2019, death of Erin Langhofer, 25, of Overland Park, Kansas.
Langhofer was shot in the head while she stood near a food truck at a First Friday event in the city’s Crossroads Art District.
Copkney told detectives he emptied the clip of his gun as he ran from a group that he and his friends had fought with, The Kansas City Star reported. He said he fired into the air and didn’t intend to hurt anyone.