A 27-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, man will spend less than a decade in jail for killing Robert G. Fox in Pettis County more than a year ago.

Sedalia Police officers were dispatched on February 22, 2020, to the 700 block of East 17th Street where they found Fox lying in the street, dead from a gunshot wound to the chest.

The investigation- including the movement of a vehicle from KCK to Pettis County right before the shooting- led to the arrest of Daniel Fernandez.

Fernandez originally was charged with a Class A Felony for Murder in the Second Degree; a Class D Felony for Kidnapping in the Second Degree; and Unclassified Felonies for Armed Criminal Action and Unlawful Use of a Weapon.

On Monday, May 17, Fernandez, as part of a plea deal, pleaded guilty to a Class B Felony for Voluntary Manslaughter and a misdemeanor for kidnapping in the third degree.

The court accepted the plea, and the judge sentenced Fernandez to eight years in the Missouri Department of Corrections on the manslaughter charge and one year in jail on the kidnapping charge, with the sentences to run consecutively.