Crime

Man sentenced to 30 years in Gladstone stabbing


Luis Fernando Morales-Hernandez
Luis Fernando Morales-Hernandez

A 29-year-old Gladstone man was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison for stabbing another man to death in June 2012.

Luis Fernando Morales-Hernandez was convicted by a jury of voluntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the death of 25-year-old Juan Manuel Orozco Vargas. The stabbing occurred in the 6300 block of North Wyandotte Street in Gladstone, where Vargas lived. Morales-Hernandez had observed Vargas with a former girlfriend. Morales-Hernandez threw the murder weapon into the Missouri River.

| Matt Campbell, mcampbell@kcstar.com

This story was originally published March 27, 2015 at 6:10 PM with the headline "Man sentenced to 30 years in Gladstone stabbing."

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