Jury reaches verdict in deadly shooting outside midtown Kansas City apartments
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- Jackson County jury found Eryn D. Holt guilty in 2024 fatal shooting case.
- Surveillance video and eyewitness accounts supported second-degree murder charge.
- Jurors recommended 17 years on the murder conviction, 10 years for unlawful use of a weapon.
A Jackson County jury has found a 22-year-old Independence man guilty in the fatal shooting of another man at a Kansas City midtown apartment last summer, according to court documents.
The jury found Eryn D. Holt guilty of second-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon, and two counts of armed criminal action in the killing of 22-year-old Adrian Terry.
Jurors recommended the judge sentence Holt to 17 years in prison for the murder conviction, 10 years for unlawful use of a weapon, and three years for each armed criminal action conviction.
Jackson County Judge J. Dale Youngs accepted the jury’s verdict and sentencing recommendations. A sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.
Surveillance cameras captured shooting
The shooting occurred around 11:30 a.m. Aug. 14, 2024, at an apartment building in the 400 block of Armour Boulevard.
A Kansas City Fire Department emergency medical crew was at the apartments on an unrelated medical call at the building when they witnessed the shooting. They declared a crew emergency and requested that the police respond.
The EMS crew took Terry to a hospital, where he died shortly thereafter.
According to court documents, a member of the emergency medical crew heard Holt and Terry arguing near the building entrance. The crew member told detectives that Terry told Holt he should have known better than to come back to the apartments. The argument moved outside, according to court documents.
Although the EMS crew member could no longer hear the exchange, he told police he could see the men were still engaging in an altercation and advised his partner to hold off on getting on the elevator.
Moments later, both EMS members witnessed Holt shoot Terry once. Terry staggered to the lobby and collapsed, according to court documents. The EMS crew immediately ran to Terry and began providing life-saving measures.
Others witnessed the shooting and the lobby surveillance cameras captured the shooting on video.
After the shooting, Holt tried to hail an Uber and leave, but police arrested him before the car arrived, court documents said.
