LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville jury has sentenced the man convicted in a 2021 shooting that left a construction worker dead and a police officer injured.

On Thursday, Keyshaun Stewart was found guilty of murder , attempted murder, attempted first-degree assault of an officer, first-degree wanton endangerment, and fleeing or evading police on foot.

In all of those charges, the jury also determined that Stewart was mentally ill when committing those crimes.

Prior to sentencing Friday, the jury also found Stewart guilty of possession of a handgun as a convicted felon, but that he was also mentally ill. Jurors also found him guilty of being a persistent felony offender in the second degree.

Keyshaun Stewart is charged with fatally shooting a father of five on the Watterson Expressway in

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