WYANDOTTE COUNTY — Detectives with the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department announced Thursday that two suspects have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the May 3 shooting death of 6 year-old Sir’Antonio Brown, according to a media release from police. A third, unidentified suspect remains at large.
Agents with the FBI assisted the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department in taking 21-year-old Lakevis Sloan and a 17-year-old boy into custody Tuesday evening as they exited a Greyhound bus in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Both suspects are residents of Kansas City, Kan. They remain in custody in South Dakota as they await extradition back to Kansas where the Wyandotte County District Attorney has charged them each with second-degree murder.
“We want Sir’Antonio’s family and our community to know that we are not slowing down the pace of this investigation,” Detective Mark Bundy, KCKPD, said.
“Somebody out there knows who this third suspect is, and where he is. Now is the time to make the call. Don’t wait any longer, because we will arrest anybody and everybody who is housing or covering for this child killer.
On May 4, police confirmed they had located the vehicle involved in the killing and on May 10, police arrested 18-year-old Cassandra Sledge a resident of Kansas City, Kansas for obstructing prosecution in the case.
Charges are based on the fact that Sledge who owns the vehicle suspects used to commit the murder, knowingly provided false statements to law enforcement to obstruct prosecution of the suspects.
Sledge remains in the Wyandotte County Jail on a $40,000 bond.
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