(KNZA)---Guilty of all charges.
That was the verdict returned Thursday night against 45-year-old Roderick Ellis, charged with holding a woman hostage at a St. Joseph motel last October after kidnapping and shooting her.
Following about 5 hours of deliberation, the jury found the St. Joseph man guilty on five felony counts---kidnapping, first-degree domestic assault, first-degree assault on a law enforcement officer and two counts of armed criminal action.
Sentencing was scheduled for January 9th.
Prosecutors say Ellis forced Rebecca Urban, with whom he had been having an affair, to drive from her work to the Motel 6 on Frederick Boulevard where he shot her in the arm, dragged her into his motel room and held her hostage for nearly 11 hours before surrounding to law enforcement.
Urban was treated at a Kansas City hospital. No officers were injured during the standoff.
The trial began Wednesday morning after jury, selected from a pool from Clay County, was seated to hear the case.
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