A former longtime Kansas City firefighter pleaded guilty Friday to assaulting a fellow firefighter at Station 27 last year in an incident that co-workers said ended when they pulled him off the victim.
Brian M. Taylor, 50, who records show had been with the Kansas City Fire Department since 2006 before leaving the job in July, pleaded guilty in Jackson County Circuit Court to fourth-degree assault, a class A misdemeanor.
Taylor was originally charged in November with second-degree assault, alleging that he “recklessly caused serious physical injury” to the victim, identified as “JH.” That charge, a class D felony, carried a maximum sentence of seven years in prison and a $10,000 fine…