A 21-year-old Wichita man pleaded guilty this week in a fatal shooting that happened nearly two years ago at a church parking lot.
James Giovanni Lee Sawyer admitted to one count of second-degree intentional murder and one count of attempted aggravated robbery in the December 2023 killing of 34-year-old Daniel McPherson, Sedgwick County District Court records show. He is scheduled for sentencing on Sept. 3.
Sawyer is the second person convicted in McPherson’s death. Last year, a Derby man, 19-year-old Philip Lee Walls, was sentenced to 27 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree intentional murder, attempted aggravated robbery and aggravated kidnapping…