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KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) –

A man charged with murdering a bouncer outside a Kansas City club in September of 2015 walked free Monday after a jury found him not guilty.

Carlton Glynn’s attorney said it all came down to surveillance video evidence.

”The shooter had been gone in less than a blink of an eye. Literally, in less than two seconds he had emptied a clip and it wasn’t my client,” Dan Ross said about the video taken inside and outside Bobs-N-Motion that night.

Royce Jeffries was killed and another person was injured in the shooting.

The club at 57th and Troost only allows patrons inside if they are 30-years-old or older.

Ross told KCTV5 News his client was there with a group of friends after they went to Martini Corner.

A fight broke out and Glynn’s party was escorted out of the bar, Ross said.

Glynn can be seen on the bar’s video coming back to the club in a different shirt. According to Ross, Glynn lost his keys in the scuffle and wanted to get them before the bar closed.

He was inside, right next to Jeffries when the shots rang out but Glynn did not have a weapon.

“Immediately behind him comes an apparent shooter who, in less than the span of a second and a half perhaps, fires at least 11 times fatally wounding Mr. Jeffries,” Ross said.

There were also shots fired outside the main entrance while Glynn was still seen on video taken inside.

Eye-witnesses pointed out Glynn in a line-up and the courts said there was enough evidence to take Glynn to trial but Ross said it is clear from the video another person did the shooting that night.

“The jury came back with the proper verdict.”

The Kansas City Police Department said on Tuesday there is more than one suspect in this case and it is still being considered an open investigation.

They did not comment further on the verdict.

Jeffries’ daughter, Desiree Jeffries, issued the following statement:

Hearing that verdict is very frustrating. We have been waiting for two years for the trial. And to hear that Mr. Glynn is connected to the possible shooter. Who he was in the company of on that night. It is disappointing that we as black people don’t want to be looked at as snitches but will demand more accountability from others. This was not just a devastating blow to my family and I but to us as a whole community. 

Ross says Glynn’s family did not want to make a statement but he said now his client is back with his wife and children.

“Right now, he is simply enjoying his freedom and getting his life back in order,” Ross said.

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A 45-year-old Kansas City man was found not guilty Monday in the 2015 killing of a former Oklahoma State basketball player who was shot while working security at a bar.

Carlton Glynn went to trial last week, accused of emptying a handgun through the front door of the bar, killing Royce Jeffries, 46. Glynn was charged with first-degree murder, two counts of assault and three counts of armed criminal action.

A Jackson County jury found Glynn not guilty on all counts after 11 hours of deliberation, according to Glynn’s attorney, Dan Ross.

The shooting occurred early Sunday morning on Sept. 20, 2015. Jeffries was working at Bob’s N Motion near 57th Street and Troost Avenue when someone opened fire into the bar, killing him and injuring two other people.

In December 2015, prosecutors charged Glynn in the shooting. At trial last week, the prosecution’s evidence included surveillance video and three positive identification witnesses, according to Ross.

The defense argued that Glynn was wrongly identified as the shooter. Ross said that Glynn was at the bar the night of the shooting, attending a birthday party, and had been one of numerous people Jeffries ejected from the bar for fighting.

Ross said that when Glynn returned to the bar looking for his keys, another person stuck a gun through the front door and fired nearly a dozen bullets within a couple of seconds.

Michael Mansur, a spokesman for the Jackson County Prosecutor’s office, said Tuesday he couldn’t say whether prosecutors would ask police to investigate further.

“We’re always willing to review,” Mansur wrote in an email. “And for another defendant there is no statute of limitations.”

The case is still open, according to Capt. Stacey Graves, a Kansas City Police Department spokeswoman. Detectives have said they have more than one suspect in this case and continue to investigate.

Co-workers described Jeffries as a kind, gentle man who would talk people down from fights. He had worked at the bar for about a year.

Jeffries played basketball at Oklahoma State from 1986 to 1990, spending four seasons under head coach Leonard Hamilton and assistant coach Bill Self, now the head coach at Kansas. Jeffries, who stood 6 feet 6 and was known for his rugged play in the paint, averaged 13.1 points per game as a senior.

During his stay at the school, he starred alongside future NBA guards John Starks and Byron Houston.

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