Man sentenced for 2019 Kansas City killing at Brookside Park
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 34-year-old Kansas City, Missouri man has pleaded guilty to the July 2019 deadly shooting of Corey Robinson.
Jonathan D. Campbell pleaded guilty last month in Jackson County court to voluntary manslaughter and armed criminal action. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
According to court documents, on July 9, 2019, Kansas City police were called to E. 57th Street and McGee Street around 12:15 a.m. on reports of an unresponsive person.
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Officers found a man in Brookside Park who had been shot several times. He was later identified as Robinson and pronounced dead at the scene.
Surveillance video placed Robinson and at least two others in a vehicle that belonged to Campbell’s girlfriend near the park around the time of the shooting. The vehicle was later spotted driving away at a high rate of speed.
Detectives later found several pieces of evidence at the scene, including two live shotgun rounds.
Campbell was previously arrested for a different homicide on Dec. 3, 2019, according to court documents. Witnesses in the murder investigation identified him as the shooter.
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Police obtained a swab of his DNA with a warrant, and the DNA was compared to DNA found on the shotgun shells found at the park. The report states that “there is very strong support that Jonathan Campbell is a contributor” to the rounds.
He also has a history of violence, according to court documents. He was arrested in 2008, sentenced to 12 years for kidnapping, armed criminal action and robbery. He was released on Feb. 23, 2019.
