KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Anthony Grable was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for a 2018 Johnson County murder.
Grable, 32, pleaded guilty last year to killing Todd E. Davis and shooting Efren J. Gomez, 54, after an argument July 3, 2018, on a worksite at Sunrise Point Elementary School in Overland Park.
The three men were contractors working on installation of playground equipment at the Blue Valley School District school.
Grable, of Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty in May 2019 to first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, three counts of aggravated assault, two counts of aggravated robbery and one count of burglary in connection with the deadly double shooting.
Some of the charges stem from armed carjackings Grable committed near West 148th and West 151st streets along Metcalf Avenue after shooting his coworkers.
Grable will not be eligible for parole for 50 years.
His attorneys had argued for a 25-year minimum sentence rather than a “Hard 50,” claiming in a motion Tuesday that Grable suffered from and was being treated for mental illness, but a recent change in medication before the shooting led to extreme “paranoia and fear.”
