Life without parole for slaying outside KC strip club

From Tony Rizzo:

A St. Louis-area man was sentenced this morning to life in prison without parole for the killing of two men outside a Kansas City strip club.

Deonta R. Taylor, 32, of Florissant, Mo., was sentenced in Jackson County Circuit Court where a jury in June found him guilty of two counts of first-degree murder. He was also found guilty of two counts of armed criminal action.

Taylor was convicted in the shooting deaths of Drell D. Fisher and Reginald L. Barnes. Both men were 33.

They were shot to death in February 2009 in the parking lot outside Gerry’s Silver Slipper on Independence Avenue. There was no trial testimony about a motive, but club records showed that Taylor’s driver’s license was used to enter the club that morning. Several eyewitnesses also picked him out of a photo line-up.

The defense maintained that the witnesses were not credible and that Taylor’s driver’s license had been stolen prior its use at the club.

Comments

[Stifled Freedom]

As you can tell, the strip club part is all the really matters to the story authors. They mention it three times. above.

And speaking of strip clubs, are they any left after the new law took effect? I did not hear anymore about it.

[doggydaddy]

As I recall, SF, it takes effect the end (28th?) of this month. Betting there will be an injunction before then until a higher court throws it out, again.

[badhairday]

It is the Silver Slipper on Independence Ave. The rats wont even go in there.

[2 sides 2 every story]

hood rats?

[2 sides 2 every story]

I don't know what everyone expected...even the strippers are gunshot victims. Go in there-they have bullet wounds too.

[blogs.kansascity.com]

Life without parole for slaying outside kc strip club.. Awful :)