KANSAS CITY (AP) — A second security guard has been convicted of second-degree murder in the June 2018 fatal shooting a man who was sitting in a car near a Kansas City bar.
Markell Pinkins, 24, was found guilty Wednesday by a judge of the killing of 45-year-old Kevin Thomas outside the Yum Yum Bar & Grill.
Pinkins, was an employee of Force One Security and Consulting of Overland Park, Kansas, at the time of the shooting and was charged along with his coworker, Christopher Jones. Jones was convicted in December of second-degree murder.
Prosecutors have said the men were working security at the bar when they saw a car hit a parked vehicle. They ran across the street and repeatedly asked Thomas to get out of the car. When Thomas moved his car “not even a foot,” Jones and Pinkins both fired at him, according to court records.
Both men said they fired their weapons in self defense but acknowledged they they were not authorized to handle situations away from the bar. Jones was not licensed to carry a firearm in Missouri, according to court records.
Pinkins is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 20.