Defendant in Firefighters’ Tragedy Gets a Re-Sentencing Hearing

Graves of firefighters covered in snow

For the first time in nearly 20 years, details of one of the city’s most enduring tragedies are about to play out once again in a Kansas City courtroom. Bryan Sheppard, one of five defendants convicted in the 1988 arson deaths of six Kansas City firefighters, will be asking a federal judge next month for…

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