Second suspect charged in death of KCK’s Louis Scherzer

The Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office on Friday charged Filiberto Espinoza Jr. with premeditated first-degree murder in connection with the death of Louis Scherzer on November 27, 2016. Espinoza is being held on a $1.5 million bond. He is 19 years old.

Scherzer was fatally shot outside Chicago’s Bar in Kansas City, Kansas, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Two weeks ago, Efrain Gonzalez, 18, was charged in connection with Scherzer’s murder. He’s also being held on a $1.5 million bond.

Like Gonzalez, Espinoza had been arrested multiple times in the months preceding Scherzer’s death. Records show he was booked by Wyandotte County police earlier in November for unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of marijuana.

Four days before Espinoza’s alleged involvement in the death of Scherzer, he had bonded out of Jackson County jail on charges of cocaine possession. Espinoza was scheduled to be arraigned on those charges on December 2. He failed to appear. 

Instead, Espinoza will appear before a judge in Division 13 in Wyandotte County court tomorrow, December 20, facing a far more serious charge.