KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Kansas City man has been convicted in the fatal shooting of a suburban father who had been trying to sell a gun on a grocery store’s parking lot.
Jurors found 19-year-old Fazon Swinton guilty Friday of second-degree murder, attempted robbery, armed criminal action and leaving the scene of a shooting.
Authorities say Jacob Branter of Lee’s Summit was shot and killed in April 2016 outside a Price Chopper store. Prosecutors allege that Swinton made arrangements to buy a handgun from Brantner but stole it instead, running off before exchanging gunfire with Brantner.
Swinton later was treated at a hospital for a bullet wound.
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