Brothers Get 190 Months for Shooting Cops

KANSAS CITY, KAN. – Two Kansas brothers will spend nearly 16 years in prison for opening fire on law enforcement officers as they investigated an earlier shooting.

G’Ante Butler, 24, and Zarion Butler, 26, of Kansas City, Kansas, were both sentenced to 190 months’ imprisonment after a federal jury found G’Ante guilty of one count of forcible assault on a federal law enforcement officer and one count of use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.

Zarion Butler pleaded guilty to one count of forcible assault of a federal law enforcement officer and one count of use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Co-defendants Nadarius Barnes, 24, Chase Lewis, 23, and Donnell L. Hall, 28, all of Kansas City, Kansas, each pleaded guilty to related charges.

The incident occurred on August 3, 2020, when Kansas City, Kansas police officers responded to a “shots fired” call at a house on Farrow Avenue, where the Butler brothers’ parents lived. As the officers were investigating, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agents and federally deputized Task Force Officers went to North Allis Street and arrested a suspect in the Farrow Avenue shooting.

However, as the officers were returning to their vehicles, multiple shooters began firing at them from a house on North Allis Street. The officers tried to take cover, but not before an officer and a civilian bystander were struck by gunfire.

“Numerous brave Law Enforcement Officers started their day in August of 2020 doing their job by executing a lawful search warrant when they were ambushed by four individuals. No one can be allowed to shoot at law enforcement. This sentence sends a clear warning to anyone who thinks they can shoot at Law Enforcement and get away with it – they cannot,” stated Bernard G. Hansen, Special Agent in Charge, Kansas City Field Division.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Faiza Alhambra and Trent Krug are prosecuting the case, which is part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) Strike Force Initiative. The case is still ongoing, with other co-defendants awaiting sentencing.

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