A Wichita man sentenced to serve almost 50 years in prison for kidnapping and threatening his ex-wife with a screwdriver died Sunday at Lansing Correctional Facility, the Kansas Department of Corrections said.
39-year-old George Eugene Phillips had been incarcerated at the prison in northeast Kansas for aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated battery and two counts of criminal threat. He was sentenced to serve 577 months, a little more than 48 years, for the convictions that stemmed from a 2021 domestic violence call during which he was shot and injured by responding police officers, court documents filed in Phillips’ case show.
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