Armed Burlington Fugitive Sentenced to Federal Prison

A man who shot two people in Burlington, Iowa, and was found in Cedar Rapids with a firearm was sentenced September 19, 2024, to over four years in federal prison.

Kejonte Daishawn King, age 21, from Burlington, Iowa, received the prison term after a March 29, 2024, guilty plea to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

At the guilty plea, King admitted he was previously convicted in Wisconsin for robbery by threat. King failed to appear for his sentencing in that case. King was in Burlington on March 24, 2023, when he shot two people and then fled the area. The Eastern Iowa Fugitive Task Force, led by the United States Marshals Service, found King in Cedar Rapids on April 18, 2023, with two firearms. King was later convicted of willful injury and intimidation with a dangerous weapon and is still serving his prison sentence in that case.

King was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge C.J. Williams. King was sentenced to an additional 54 months' and 21 days' imprisonment to be served concurrently with the remainder of his prison sentence for the Burlington shooting and consecutive to any sentence imposed for his Milwaukee robbery conviction. He must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.

This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. On May 26, 2021, the Department launched a violent crime reduction strategy strengthening PSN based on these core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results.

King is being held in the United States Marshal's custody until he can be returned to the Iowa Department of Corrections to complete service of his Iowa sentence and then be sent to a federal prison.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Patrick Reinert and investigated by the Northern Iowa Fugitive Task Force comprised of officers from the U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Cedar Rapids Police Department, Waterloo Police Department, Marion Police Department, Independence Police Department, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, and the Iowa Department of Corrections, the Southern Iowa Fugitive Task Force, the Burlington Iowa Police Department, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Court file information at https://ecf.iand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.

The case file number is 24-CR-00010.

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