Man sentenced in 2022 shooting deaths of two teens in Kansas City, Kansas

A 27-year-old man accused of fatally shooting two Kansas City, Kansas, teenagers in 2022 has been sentenced to 330 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections, according to a press release Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office.

Patrick Howard was found guilty Tuesday of two counts of second-degree murder and one count of witness intimidation in the fatal shooting of Samuel Guess and Antonio Johnson, according to the press release.

Police were dispatched to an apartment in the 2200 block of Birch Drive in Kansas City, Kansas, on Feb. 18, 2022. There, they found Guess, 14, and Johnson, 14, suffering from gunshot wounds. Both were declared dead at the scene.

The fatal shooting took place across the street from Argentine Middle School. Both Guess and Johnson were students in the Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools district, according to previous reporting from The Star.