A Sedgwick County jury has found a Wichita man guilty of charges in the shooting death of another man whom authorities found dying on a street in March 2023.
Julian Cesar Wedge, 24, was convicted of second-degree reckless murder and robbery in connection with 24-year-old Evan Chad Harrison’s death . He was also convicted of interference with law enforcement for destroying evidence of the homicide. Jurors deliberated for about 10 1/2 hours Monday and Tuesday before reaching their verdicts, Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office spokesman Dan Dillon said.
Wedge was found not guilty by the jury of one count of first-degree murder. He entered an Alford plea at the start of his trial to one count of criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, Dillon said. An Alford plea has the same outcome as a guilty plea but allows a defendant to maintain innocence.
Wedge previously pleaded not guilty in the case. He is scheduled for sentencing on Nov. 13.
Prosecutors alleged Wedge shot Harrison twice in the right leg around 11:30 p.m. on March 4, 2023, after a struggle that started when Wedge tried to rob Harrison of a gun he was selling. After the shooting, Wedge and others pushed Harrison out of a car into the street, near the intersection of Clifton and Cumberland Way in the Oaklawn-Sunview neighborhood area, and left him to die.