A Wyandotte County District Court jury today found two men guilty of attempted capital murder in connection with the March 4, 2015, shooting of a Wyandotte County Deputy Sheriff at the 7-Eleven at the 4400 block of Shawnee Drive in Kansas City, Kan.
Dyron M. King, 25, and Cecil D. Meggerson, 43, were convicted of attempted capital murder. It was a two-week trial.
King also was convicted on three counts of aggravated robbery, two counts of aggravated battery, two counts of conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery, and two counts of criminal possession of a firearm.
Meggerson also was convicted of three counts of aggravated robbery, two counts of aggravated battery, two counts of conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery, and criminal possession of a firearm.
The charges arose out of armed robberies at the 7-Eleven, and at a Family Dollar Store located in the 1200 block of Quindaro Boulevard in Kansas City, Kan.
“We thank the citizen jurors who gave up two weeks of their lives to serve in an important criminal case,” District Attorney Jerome A. Gorman said. “They sifted through testimony from dozens of witnesses and examined hundreds of trial exhibits before reaching their verdicts in these two defendant’s cases.”
Assistant District Attorneys Kristiane Bryant and Shawn Boyd prosecuted the case for the state of Kansas. Sentencing will be scheduled at a later date.