A big decision is coming from the Wyandotte County District Attorney’s office in the next several days.
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District Attorney Mark Dupree will decide whether to seek the death penalty for Shawn Harris, the man accused of killing Wyandotte County Deputy Elijah Ming.
“This decision is not one that is made lightly,” Dupree said in a news conference Tuesday. “We want to make sure that is a road we want to go back down to and that this community is ready and willing to go back down.”
The case Dupree referenced in his statement involved Antoine Fielder.
Fielder was sentenced in March in a capital murder case for killing two Wyandotte County law enforcement officers…