Bryan Sheppard

Graves of firefighters covered in snow

Defendant in Firefighters’ Tragedy Gets a Re-Sentencing Hearing

By Mike McGraw | January 6, 2017

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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