OLATHE, Kan. (AP) - A man left partially paralyzed when gunfire erupted as he and three others were robbing a suburban Kansas City gun shop has been sentenced to life in prison for killing the shop’s owner.
The Kansas City Star report that 23-year-old De’Anthony Wiley won’t be eligible for parole for 25 years under the sentence ordered Thursday. He says he’s “deeply ashamed.”
He pleaded guilty in February to first-degree felony murder and other charges in the 2015 death of 44-year-old Jon Bieker.
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The robbery of Bieker’s Shawnee, Kansas, gun store turned deadly when one of the robbers punched his wife. Bieker then emerged from a back room with a gun. Bieker was killed and three of the robbers wounded in the ensuing gunfight.
Wiley was the final robber sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Information from: The Kansas City Star, http://www.kcstar.com
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