BLOOMINGTON – A Monroe County judge has sentenced Kendrick Webb to 28 years in prison for the fatal shooting of 28-year-old Tyshawn Carter at Kinser Flats Apartments in Bloomington.
Webb entered a guilty plea Thursday morning to voluntary manslaughter acted under “sudden heat”, a Level 2 felony, in Monroe Circuit Court 2. As part of the plea agreement, Judge Valeri Haughton dismissed a separate charge related to illegal firearm possession. Webb will receive credit for two years and three months already served in custody.
The fatal incident occurred in the early morning hours of July 27, 2022. According to police reports, eyewitness accounts, and security camera footage, Webb entered Carter’s bedroom at Kinser Flats Apartments, where an argument ensued. The confrontation escalated when Webb produced a handgun and shot Carter in the head. When police responded to the scene at 4:50 a.m., they found Carter deceased.
Webb fled the state following the shooting but was apprehended two weeks later, on August 10, 2022. A joint operation between Bloomington detectives and a U.S. Marshals Service task force located Webb at an apartment in Melrose Park, Illinois. After his arrest, he was initially held in Cook County Jail before being transferred to Monroe County Jail to face charges.
The sentencing brings closure to a case that has spanned nearly two years since the fatal shooting at the Bloomington apartment complex.
