22-year-old sentenced to 20 years for fatal shooting in Kansas City’s Midtown
A judge sentenced a 22-year-old Independence man to 20 years in prison last week for the fatal shooting of another man at a Kansas City midtown apartment building last summer, according to court documents.
A Jackson County jury in August 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.
Following the jurors’ recommendation, Jackson County Judge J. Dale Youngs sentenced 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.
Youngs ordered that the sentence for murder and one count of armed criminal action be served consecutively, and that the sentence for unlawful use of a weapon be served consecutively with the second count of armed criminal action. Finally, he ordered the two sets of sentences to run concurrently with each other, resulting in a total prison term of 20 years.
Youngs also denied Holt’s motions for an acquittal and for a new trial.
The deadly shooting occurred around 11:30 a.m. on Aug. 14, 2024, while a Kansas City Fire Department emergency medical crew was at an apartment building in the 400 block of East Armour Boulevard on an unrelated medical call.
The ambulance crew witnessed the shooting, declared a crew emergency and requested police to respond. The medical crew took Terry to a hospital, where he died shortly thereafter. 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.
