KCK brothers sentenced for 2020 shootings that injured three, including federal officer
KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Two brothers from Kansas City, Kansas are sentenced for opening fire on law enforcement officers as the officers were investigating an earlier, related shooting in August 2020.
According to court documents, G’Ante Butler, 24, and Zarion Butler, 26, were both sentenced to 15 years and 10 months in prison.
In December 2023, a federal jury found G’Ante Butler guilty of one count of forcible assault on a federal law enforcement officer and one count of use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of
violence.
Zarion Butler subsequently pleaded guilty to one count of forcible assault of a federal law
enforcement officer and one count of use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
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Three other suspects, Nadarius Barnes, 24, Chase Lewis, 23, and Donnell L. Hall, 28, all of KCK, each pleaded guilty to one count of forcible assault on a federal law enforcement officer and
one count of use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
Barnes was sentenced to 13 years in prison, Lewis (a driver who did not shoot at officers) was sentenced to just over 3 years and Hall is awaiting sentencing.
On August 3, 2020, KCK police officers responded to a “shots fired” call around 6:30 p.m. in the 5100 block of Farrow Avenue, where the Butler brothers’ parents lived.
Later that evening, ATF special agents and federally deputized task force officers went to a home in the 1900 block of North Allis Street and arrested one of the people responsible for the earlier
Farrow Avenue residence shooting.
After executing a search warrant at the North Allis Street residence, and as the officers were returning to their vehicles, multiple shooters began firing at them. The officers tried to immediately take cover, however, not before an officer and a civilian bystander were struck by gunfire.
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Based on evidence gathered during the subsequent investigation, ATF agents learned the shooting was orchestrated by Butler and other individuals in retaliation for the earlier incident on
Farrow Avenue. Their plan was to shoot at the North Allis Street home and anyone they
encountered there.
Officers later recovered approximately 101 casings and two live rounds (including 9mm, .40 caliber, .45 caliber, 5.56 caliber, and 7.62 caliber casings) from an alley west of the targeted North Allis Street home.
