A Wichita jury found him guilty, but he took off his GPS monitor and fled to Oklahoma

Just before a jury found Tremain Shears guilty of attempted murder last week, the gang member took off his ankle monitor and fled to Oklahoma, officials said.

Shears, 30, removed his court-ordered ankle monitor on July 24, Wichita police Officer Charley Davidson said at the time. Police said Shears is a documented gang member and is considered armed and dangerous, describing him as an “absconded dangerous felon.”

He was arrested by U.S. marshals in Oklahoma City on Monday, Oklahoma County Jail records show.

July 24 was the final day of Shears’ week-long jury trial, according to a motion filed Monday by Trinity Muth, the assistant district attorney. On that day, he had his GPS monitoring bracelet removed and left Premier Monitoring Solutions. A warrant was issued for his arrest with a $1 million bond.

After Shears failed to appear in court, the jury found him guilty of two counts of attempted first-degree murder and seven other counts — including aggravated battery, criminal discharge of a weapon and criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon — court documents state.

He was originally charged with the crimes in 2017 after he allegedly ran up to someone and shot that person 12 times with a gun on Sept. 11, 2016, court documents state. He allegedly caused great bodily harm to the same person on April 24, 2016.

Shears will be given the opportunity to either contest or waive extradition to Kansas, District Attorney Marc Bennett said in a news release. He has not been sentenced.

Shears was convicted of aggravated robbery in 2007 in Sedgwick County, Kansas Department of Corrections records show.

This story was originally published July 31, 2018 at 5:16 PM.