Man sentenced to 32 years after fatal shooting through apartment wall: Court documents
A Kansas City man has been sentenced to 32 years in prison in the death of a man by shooting a gun into his apartment in 2023.
Kequan O. Herring, 29, was convicted of second-degree murder, as well as armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and firing a gun into a building, in the fatal shooting of 45-year-old Calvin L. Boyles.
Kansas City police responded to the shooting just after midnight on Nov. 28, 2023 at Boyles’ apartment building in the 1900 block of Park Tower Road, in the Central Blue Valley neighborhood of Kansas City. Boyle was found with gunshot wounds to the neck and left shoulder and pronounced dead at the scene, according to court records and the Kansas City Police Department.
Neighbors told police that Boyles was not the “intended target” of the shooting, according to court documents. Another woman who was present at the apartment building told detectives that she had been “feuding” with Herring for months and that he had “shot up” her home and her neighbor’s car, according to court documents.
Police found 23 spent bullet casings on the hill behind the apartment building where Boyles lived, as well as several bullet holes in the walls of Boyles’ apartment, court documents read. Detectives later linked Herring’s car to another incident around the same time where several shots were fired into a car, according to court records.
Born and raised in Missouri, Calvin Boyles was a skilled carpenter who worked as an independent contractor around Kansas City, according to an obituary shared online. Deeply religious, Boyles was a deacon at Maranatha Family Worship Center in Kansas City.
Boyles loved cooking and spending time with family and friends, according to his obituary. Loved ones remember him as calm, affectionate and clever with his hands.
“Calvin was a loving man who loved and enjoyed being around,” the obituary reads. “...His calm spirit made it easy to be in his presence.”
Boyles is survived by his wife Vivian Boyles, as well as by 17 children. His death was the 172nd homicide reported in Kansas City in 2023, according to data collected by The Star.
Herring was initially held on a $300,000 bond. In August 2024, he pleaded guilty to murder and to firing a gun into a building.
