WICHITA, KAN. – A Kansas man was sentenced to more than 30 years in prison for two cases including the murder of a Wichita man in 2020.
District Judge David Kaufman sentenced Jeremy Shuflat, 39 of Wichita, to 285 months on one count of murder in the second degree and 61 months on one count of kidnapping for the killing of 28-year-old Zackary Tilson, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney's office.
The homicide occurred on March 27, 2020 in Sedgwick County. Sheriffs deputies responding to a truck broken down on a bridge near Valley Center discovered Tilson’s body lying under the bridge. The coroner determined Tilson died from multiple stab wounds. The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office was able to locate multiple surveillance videos of Shuflat near the scene. Video recovered from a trailer home in Wichita recorded Tilson leaving with Shuflat the night before the body was discovered.
Shuflat could also be seen on that video placing a knife in his pocket. Deputies later located a knife near a gas station in Valley Center along with video from the station that recorded Shuflat in the area the knife was found. Testing on the knife indicated the presence of blood and contained DNA matching both Tilson and Shuflat.
Clothing recovered from a home belonging to a relative of Shuflat’s also contained blood evidence. Shuflat pled guilty in September as part of a plea agreement that dismissed one additional case.