A Jackson County judge sentenced an 18-year-old North Kansas City man to 16 years in prison for the killing of a high school student last fall, according to court documents.

In June, a jury found Mikael L. Hickman-Perry guilty of second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Christopher Avila, who had turned 18 in August and was in his senior year of high school.

Judge Adam Caine on Wednesday ordered the sentences — 13 years in prison for the second-degree murder and three years for the armed criminal action — to run consecutively.

According to court documents , Kansas City police responded to a medical call about 5:30 a.m. on Oct. 24 at the intersection of East 17th Street and Cambridge Avenue in the East Blue Valley neighborhood.

There, they found Avila dead wit

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