A man who is awaiting a retrial in a Harrisburg homicide case has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison for trying to kill the same victim.
Dauphin County Judge William T. Tully imposed that sentence two months after a jury convicted Calvin McKinney, 31, of attempted murder for a violent December 2017 ambush in the city.
The target of the gunfire, Keynen Guider, survived that ambush at 20th and Market streets even though his car was riddled with bullet holes.
Two days later, Guider shot to death in another ambush as he drove in the 1900 block of Brookwood Street.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Stephen Zawisky argued that McKinney was a participant in both ambushes, but the jury returned a guilty verdict only for the Dec. 29 incident. It deadlocked on the murder charge for Guider’s slaying.
McKinney told the jurors he had no beef with Guider and never tried to kill him. Zawisky contended McKinney killed Guider over a Dec. 27, 2017 confrontation where Guider angrily accused McKinney of staring at his car.
McKinney’s retrial on the murder charge is scheduled for December. Zawisky, will again seek a first-degree murder conviction and life prison sentence. The prosecutor said McKinney also has been charged with perjury on grounds that he gave false testimony during his trial in August.