Jury can’t decide fate of man charged with 2015 murder in KCK

For the second time, a paroled drug dealer on trial for first-degree murder had his case end in a hung jury in Wyandotte County.

A jury on Thursday couldn’t decide the fate of 29-year-old Antoine Fielder, who was charged in 2015 with first-degree murder and criminal possession of a firearm in the shooting death of 22-year-old Kelsey Ewonus.

According to KCTV 5, Fielder’s first trial ended in a hung jury, which resulted in a mistrial.

Ewonus, the single mother of a 1-year-old son, was found June 30, 2015, fatally shot in a car parked in an out-of-the-way area just west of State Line Road and a few blocks north of the University of Kansas Hospital.

Fielder was paroled from prison in 2014 after serving time on drug sale charges, according to Kansas Department of Corrections records.

This story was originally published July 13, 2017 at 8:47 PM with the headline "Jury can’t decide fate of man charged with 2015 murder in KCK."