Man sentenced for 2023 deadly shooting in KCK’s Strawberry Hill neighborhood
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A 38-year-old Kansas City, Missouri man is sentenced for the June 2023 deadly shooting of 34-year-old Thomas Wheeler.
Mahir Alihodzic was sentenced Wednesday in Wyandotte County court to five years and one month with the Kansas Department of Corrections.
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He was taken into custody in August of 2023 by U.S. Marshals and Kansas City, Kansas police officers and charged with second-degree murder.
The shooting took place just before 9:30 p.m. on June 5, 2023 near N. 5th Street and Elizabeth Avenue in the KCK’s Strawberry Hill neighborhood.
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Officers found a man, later identified as Wheeler, with gunshot wounds lying in the alley. He was taken to an area hospital where he later died from his injuries.
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