KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Leavenworth man who shot two people in 2024 while wearing a gorilla mask was found guilty on Wednesday of attempted murder by a county jury.

According to the Leavenworth County Attorney, 32-year-old Emanuel J. Dickerson was convicted of one count of attempted first-degree murder, one count of aggravated battery, one count of criminal discharge of a firearm, one count of fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement and one count of interference with a law enforcement officer, after a three-day jury trial.

Court documents say that on Oct. 26, 2024, Dickerson fired a gun into an occupied parked car, striking two people outside of an apartment complex near Limit Street and Martin Luther King Drive. He was reportedly wearing a gorilla mask during the shooting to "conce

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