A Sedgwick County jury has convicted a Wichita man of first degree murder in the 2021 shooting death of a security guard outside a downtown area Quik Trip store.
The jury began deliberations Friday morning in the case of 44-year-old Laroy West, and they returned a verdict early in the afternoon. In addition to the murder charge, the jury also convicted West on two counts of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. The jury returned a not-guilty verdict on a count of aggravated assault.
West will be sentenced on December 8th.
Police arrested West in May, 2021 after a disturbance at a Quik Trip store at Murdock and Broadway. A security guard, 39-year-old Will Robinson, had escorted West out of the store after a disturbance, and Robinson was shot in the parking lot. Robinson died two days later.
