Man sentenced to prison for shooting at Kansas City Zoo

Published March 9, 2022 8:17 AM

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has been sentenced to four years in prison for a 2020 accidental shooting at the Kansas City Zoo that killed another man. Federal prosecutors for Missouri say in a news release that 29-year-old Anthony Meneses was sentenced Tuesday in federal court after pleading guilty last year to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Prosecutors say the shooting happened on Aug. 9, 2020, in the zoo’s parking lot while Meneses was in the back seat of a car. Investigators say Meneses grabbed a gun in the pocket of a seat in front of him in the car, and the gun fired, hitting 19-year-old Jason Smith who was in the front seat. Smith died at a hospital.

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